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Mysterious Night Fairies whose Soft Voices woe one to 
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DEDICATION. 



To Salt Lake, where I have spent so many happy, sunshiny 
hours, do I dedicate this little book, hoping that it may go forth and 
bring others within the radius of its incomparable sunshine and 
phosphorescent moonlight. 

Ill the heat of the noon-tide splendor, 

In the rosy light of dawn, 
In the rays of the dying sunset, 

Long ago a child was born. 

'Twas not a dainty dimpled maiden, 

But a chubby, sturdy boy; 
A winsome child whose healthy growing 

Caused Columbia greatest joy. 

Over the peaks of the Rocky Mountains, 

In the Land of the Great Yuta, 
The babe was born and grew to boyhood 

'Neath the rule of Mormon law. 

A little waif in the dreary desert, 

Where the shadows lingered long, 
The babe and boy was wooed to slumber 

By the swaying poplar's song. 

But his Uncle came and took him, 

Took him for Columbia's sake; 
He has grown to sturdy manhood. 

And his name is— Great Salt Lakr. 

The Author. 




In the midst of this light, which was most brilliant around his person, 
stood a radiant being, whose countenance was more bright than vivid 
lightning and was marvelously lovely. He seemed of greater stature 
than an ordinary man and moved and stood without touching the floor. 
He was clothed in a robe of intense and dazzling whiteness, far exceed- 
ing anything of an earthly character; and his hands and his wrists and 
feet and ankles, as well as his head and neck, were bare. This glorious 
personage stood at Joseph's bedside; and to the awed youth, in a voice 
of tenderness and comfort, calling Joseph by name, the angel announced 
himself to be a messenger from the presence of the Almighty, and that 
his name was Moroni. — //is/ii>y of Joseph Smith, by Georg^e Q. Cannon, 
Page 40. 




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Historical Salt Lake. 



PROLOGUE. 

ROM ocean to ocean, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, there is 
not a more historical city than this — Salt Lake. That fragrant 
aroma which age and antiquity ever lends shall ever hang over the 
Rome of America; the city by the sea. 

St. Augustine has her associations; Santa Fe rears her head, 
white with the forgotten days of centuries agone, proud in the knowl- 
edge of her hoary old age; but Salt Lake has more than they. St. 
Augustine and Santa Fe have naught but their age to recommend 
them to the homeseeker and tourist. Salt Lake has more. There is 
not a street nor an alley nor a tree nor a house that is not possessed oi 
its own individual veil of obscurity and garment of historical interest 

It is a quaint old spot, is Salt Lake, with its queer adobe houses 
here and there, nestling so quietly after the storms and sunshine of de- 
cades, and presenting such strong contrast to its modern six and eight 
story buildings. Humbly they hover beneath their own particular linden 
tree, covered with their vines of honeysuckle and ivy, and breathing 
always the exquisite aroma of their rose-bushes and lilacs. To see 
them sitting in some obscure corner and then to look across to some 
tall building outlined against the Itahan sky, one is seized with a sharp 
pain at the heart, and wants to believe that, after all, the old things 
are best. 

Surely they, with their memories of the past, are worthy of one 
little prayer, and .som.ehow .one feels better for granting them this. 



CHAPTER I. 




ASSING Strange it is that from time immemorial the 
mystery of the northern seas has been a fascinating 
subject for the explorers of all nations. This was 
more particularly so during that period immediately 
following the discovery of America by Columbus and 
all during the succeeding centuries and until the Col- 
onies became the States. During that period the de- 
sire for conquest and exploration was the paramount subject of dis- 
cussion and ambition of individuals. If history is to be believed the 
wildest excitement prevailed when it became known that there was a 
new and undreamed of land lying beyond the horizon and over the sea. 
Possibly it was the law of compensation, possibly it was the nat- 
ural desire of the Spaniard of those days to sally forth and, like Don 
Quixote, see thinjjs for himself, and possibly it was the desire to emu- 
late the example of his Sovereigns; but whatever the reason, certain it 
is the Spaniards were among the first in the field, and of all explorers 
were most daring and thorough. While representatives from other 
.nations were looking for Indian tigers and white elephants in the pri- 
meval forests of the New England States, the Spaniards 
had explored the Mississippi from its source to the Gulf, 
and had prowled through the virgin shrubbery and over the 
mountains of the then unknown and unknowable West. 
That this is so, is proven by the Spanish nomenclature of 
California, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah. 
It was during one of these explorations, led by Francisco Vasquez 
•de Coronado, in 1540, that the Moqui Indians informed the party of 
a laro-e river that Jay ffyr npjth ,0/ Zuni, at which place Coronado' s 



Spanish 
Explorers 
and Ex= 
plorations 



body was resting^, waiting for the main army to catch up. Immedi- 
ately upon receipt of this information, Coronado detailed Captain 
Garcia Lopez de Cardenas to go with twelve men and explore it. 
According to the most authentic authorities this party took a north- 
westerly course and came upon the Colorado River within the boun- 
daries of the present Utah On account of the height of the walls of 
the canyon through which this river flows, they were unable to cross it 
or descend to its bed. Compelled by thirst and lack of sufficient pro 
visions, they finally gave up the project after many weary attempts 
and returned to the main body. 

Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was therefore the first white 
man to set foot within the boundaries of the present Utah. 

A more pronounced exploration was that of Fr. Francisco Atan- 
asio Dominguez and Fr. Silvestre Velez Escalante, two Franciscan 
Friars, who started from Santa Fe, New Mexico, about the middle of 
1776. Taking the old Spanish trail which then led from Santa Fe to 

Los Angeles, their course was at first northwest, but later 
Captain 

it was altered so that the Friars passed first through Colo- 
Garcia ^ 

J rado and then into Utah, their course thus being what was 
Lopez ue '^ 

Cardenas later called, and which is indeed yet known in some places 
and the as "The Old Spanish Trail from Santa Fe to the Great 
Franciscan Salt Lake." This was not altogether an unknown path- 
Friars, way, as many Spanish explorers had traveled it before and 
had given their names to rivers, mountains and sections of country 
along the route. It must have been about the latter part of September 
in 1776, that the Friars with their retainers following up the Uintah 
across the Duchesne, to what is now known as the Timpanogos, dis- 
covered Utah Lake. 

It was also a different sort of an Indian that the old Franciscan 
peres discovered here in the basin of the Great Salt Lake. They had 




been led to believe that they would find a race of Pueblos or town 
builders, but it was not so, for the Indians here were savage but not 
fierce and wild They were docile and kind, were these native Yutas, 

willing to feed 
and help the trav- 
eler on his way, 
and much im- 
pressed with the 
dignified and 

stately ceremon- 
ial of the Roman 
Church. They 
THE ABORIGINES. wauted the 

priests to return and found a mission in their midst, and to show their 
good faith they gave many tokens. Maybe it was the climate that 
made these natives so kind and gentle, for in the old Spanish archives 
the narrative that tells of this exploration, says: 

"We had been troubled by colds, but here the climate is so 
soft and balmy and delicious withal that it is a pleasure to breathe it." 

It was the Yutas who gave this first account of the Great Salt 
Lake, and this account is contained in Fr. Escalante's diary of the 
journey, where it is told in full. According to his entry the Indians 
told of "A wonderful lake of many leagues, whose waters are extreme- 
ly salt, and he who wets his body with this water feels itchy." The 
Friars did not think themselves called upon, however, to go any far- 
ther as their provisions had given out and they were told of many un- 
known dangers that would assail and confront them if they pursued 
their way any farther to the north. 

They therefore turned their way southward, and after many hard- 



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ships succeeded in reaching Santa Fe, in the early part of 
The Friars, lyjy^ having been gone nearly six months. 

e u as This was the last exploration into the boundaries of 

the present Utah until 1824, when James Bridger, a trap- 
Great Salt 

per in the employ of the Northwestern Fur Company, is 
LaKe* 
found standing upon the shores of the Great Salt Lake, wondering 

whether it is an arm of the Pacific, and tasting of its brackish 

waters. To Bridger belongs the honor of the discovery of Great Salt 

Lake, and to a wager did Bridger owe the honor. 

This is a peculiar story and serves to illustrate how to little things 

do some men owe their greatest successes. According to the account 

of this memorable event a party of trappers led by Ashley and 

Henry were encamped on the Bear River in Cache Valley. While 

they were sitting around the camp fire one night, the question as to 

the probable course of Bear River arose. This was discussed pro 

and con, since being fur hunters they were naturally interested as to 

whether they might find beavers at its mouth. The outcome of the 

argument was, that a wager was made and Bridger was sent to decide 

it. Following the river through the mountains the first view of the 

Great Salt Lake burst upon him, December i6th, 1824. It was in the 

following year, that Bridger with a party of four men sailed 
Bridger's 

down Bear River in skin boats and out upon the bosom 
Bet, the 

Bear River o( the Great Salt Lake. 

and the To the Ashley of this party of fur hunters belongs the 

Great Salt honor of the erection of the first fort within the limits of the 
Lake. present Utah. It was erected on the shores of Utah Lake 

in 1825. It was he, also, who brought the first cannon west of the 
Rocky Mountains; this occurred in 1827, and for years afterward the 
little six-pounder at Fort Ashley was held in much awe and reverence 
by the kindly and gentle Yutas. Ashley has been honored, too, in 



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the nomenclature of Utah, for there is an Ashley Lake, an Ashley 
River and an Ashley town, while James Bridger, the man who first 
set foot on the shores of Great Salt Lake, has been forgotten by all but 
the dusty pages of the musty tomes of American history. 
But such is fame. 







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CHAPTER II. 




HIS was a period of slow communication. The 

telegraph, the telephone, and the railroad had 

not come, that the news of the world might be 

read by the world day by day, and so it was, 

that although this discovery was made known 

as quickly as possible, it is found that 

Captain B. L. E. Bonneville, coming upon this 

Lake six years afterward, made a map and 

called the Lake after himself. 

It was easy to do this because the early emigrants, 

on their way to California, did not touch this section, and for 

years after but little was known of this mysterious inland sea. In 1841, 

however, the fur companies commenced sending out their 

agents, and gradually the Great Salt Lake became so well 
e 
known that the various religious denominations began 

sending their missionaries to the Indians. One of these, 
John Bidwell, who visited this section in 1841, left behind him a man- 
uscript, in which he makes frequent mention of the now well known 
mirages of the Great Salt Lake, and also the barreness of its now fer- 
tile basin. According to Mr. Bidwell drinking water was almost an 
unknown quantity and there was absolutely no pasturage for his live- 
stock. In 1842 A. L. Lovejoy and Marcus Whitman passed through 
Utah on their way to Oregon. In the following year John C. Fre- 
mont and Kit Carson, accompanying an immigrant train, passed so 
close to the Great Salt Lake, that he, with Carson, decided to embark 
upon its waters. Taking a rubber boat they dropped down the Weber 
River, on which the train was encamped, and sailed out upon the Lake 



What 

Bonneville 

Did. 



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John C. 
Fremont 
makes the 
first camp 
on the 
present 



in the early part of October of that year. They went so 

far as what is known as Castle or Fremont Island, from 

whence they returned and proceeded upon their way. In 

1845 Fremont returned with another party of immigrants, 

and made camp upon the present site of Salt Lake City. 

This was the first camp made in this immediate vicinity 

site of Salt and this was the last party of white men to visit this parti - 

Lake City, cular section before its later discovery and occupation by 

the pioneer band of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 

So closely are the interests of the Mormon church identified with 

the history and interests of Salt Lake City that it is practically impos- 
sible to narrate the fortunes of one without giving the history of the 

other. The history of the world, either ancient or modern, or the 

stories dealing with the settlement of the States and localities of Amer- 

ca, does not furnish an instance 

parallel to the causes which led 

up to the settlement ot Salt Lake 

City. The men who came here 

came with the avowed purpose of 

founding a city, and not in search 

of silver or gold, but this being an 

history of Salt Lake City, it has 

nothing to do with the various 

and manifold causes which led up 

to its settlement, since an account 

of these causes would bean history 

of the Mormon Church, and space 

is limited. 

The first revelation with re- 

ardto Mormonism was received Joseph Smith. 



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by Prophet Joseph Smith in the spring of 1820, and the vision thus 
received was not made pubHc until 1830, but in seventeen years after 
its foundation, the sect had increased so rapidly and become so 
powerful that in 1847, the fanatics of other religions felt themselves 
called upon to persecute and drive them from the homes they had 
made in Illinois and Missouri. 

Much has been written with regard to the Mormon Church, tomes 
upon tomes of matter. A great deal of it has been composed of lies 
made of the whole cloth, while other has been fair and impartial. 

That the Mormons had then, 
and yet have their faults, no one 
will deny, but surely those faults 
could not have been great enough 
to warrant the wholesale persecu- 
tion, pillaging and murder, ac- 
counts of which occur all too 
frequently in even the most im- 
partial histories of the Mormon 
Church. 

It was this persecution that 
caused their removal from Nau- 
voo, Illinois, the then seat of the 
Church, the first party setting 
forth about January loth, 1846 
BRiGHAM YOUNG ^his party was led by Brigham 

Young in person accompanied by apostles John Taylor, George A. 
Smith, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Orson Hyde, Orson 
Pratt, Parley P. Pratt, Amasa Lyman and Wilford Woodruff, the 
present head of the Church. Of their long journey over the plains 
this story has nothing to do; suffice it to say, that under the 




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leadership of Brigham Young, Stephen Markham and John Pack, 
a hundred and forty volunteers started from their winter quarters 
at Council Bluffs in the spring of 1847, with the valley of the Great 
Salt Lake as their objective point. This valley, then a wilderness. 
Some Mor= was beyond the jurisdiction of the United States, and 
mon Facts nearly a thousand miles from civilization, but profiting by 

and the their former experiences, the Saints had arrived at the 

First 

conclusion that only beyond the pale of civilization lay 
Expedition j j t- 

J. ^v. safety for them. 

to the ■' 

Valley of ^' ^^^ ^^ ^^^ latter part of June, 1847, that Brigham 

the Great Young with his little band of pioneers arrived at the South 
3alt Lake. Pass of the Rocky Mountains. No one knew anything of 
the country, and many of the party had fallen ill from the 
effects of mountain fever. After holding a formal meeting and con- 
sulting with the leader, Brigham directed Orson Pratt to take the 
most able-bodied men and make his way to the valley, a portion of 
which he could see from where the party was encamped. Pratt was 
also told to build a road as he progressed, so that those who followed 
should know the way. These directions were complied with immedi- 
ately, as Brigham was very impatient of delay, and so rapidly did they 
The Mor- Progress, that by the middle of July, 1S47, Orson Pratt 
mons Dis= and Erastus Snow, with their handful of men, encamped in 
cover the Emigration Canyon. It was on the 21st of July that 
Valley of these two leaders emerged from the mountains, and stand- 
the Great j^^^ ^^ what is now known as the East Bench, saw spread 
Salt Lake. ^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^jj^^ ^^ ^^^ q^.^^^ g^j^ Lake in all its 

wild and weird desolation. After offering thanks to God 
for his comfort and guidance the party descended the mountains and 
before noon had staked ofi land suitable for crops, William Carter 
plowing the first furrow . 



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Brigham was slowly following, and reached the valley about noon 
of the 24th The three days had been occupied in making ready the 
soil and turning the water of City Creek into ditches for irrigation 
purposes. George A. Smith planted the first potato, which was the 
first vegetable planted in the valley. 

The whole party immediately commenced labor, and it was on 

Monday, July 



27th, 1847, six 
dayh after their 
arrival, that the 
first log house 
was begun. It was 
the property of 
Burr Frost and is 
standing yet not 
far from the Tem- 
The First House Built in Salt Lake City. ^j^ The Citv 

was quickly laid out in blocks ot ten acres and in lots ot an acre and 
a quarter, the present site of the Temple being selected as the central 
point from where all streets should radiate. On the 29th of July, an- 
other party of an hundred and fifty Saints who had wintered at Pueblo 
arrived in the valley and other Saints have been arriving ever since. 





CHAPTER III 




ITH the Saints labor was a cardinal virtue. 
Lahore est orare was their motto, selected 
:5| for the same reason that Deseret, whose 
meaning^ is honey-bee, was taken as a name 
for their community. So earnestly, in- 
deed, did they labor, that in the springs 
of 1848 — only six months after their arrival 
in the valley, they were well clothed, 
well housed and well feed. A fort was erected in the southern part of 
the City, which was used as protection against the wild beasts, many 
sorts of which roamed and prowled around the houses at night mak- 
ing life miserable for the settlers. Life, indeed, was not all too easy at 
best. The furniture was of the rudest sort. Brigham Young's house 
The first ^^ described as being furnished with a chest which was used 
Furnish= fo"" ^ table, a bedstead built in the corner of the house, the 
merit of two walls of which made two sides and two green poles 
Brigham making it complete. Pegs were driven into the walls and 
Young s j-aiis^ and a rope wound tightly about them. On this was 
placed the mattress brought from Nauvoo. The chimneys 
were of adobe, built in the corner, the hearth made of fire baked clay 
Notwithstanding all these difficulties and hardships the Saints contin- 
ued to come in ever-increasing numbers, so that in March, 1848, there 
were in the Valley four hundred and twenty-three houses harboring 
one thousand six hundred and seventy-one souls, which number had, 
before the end of the year, increased to five thousand people. Saw- 
mills, printing-presses, c^rding-machines, fanning-mills, threshing- 
machines, mill-irons, and mill stones, were soon brought into the Val- 
ley, so that life gradually became more livable. 



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The 



Towards the close of 1 848 a census was taken with the 

Census of following enumeration as a result: 

the Winter Whites, four thousand three hundred and ninety-three; 

of 1848. Negroes, twenty-four; wagons, seven hundred and ninety- 
two; oxen, two thousand five hundred and twenty-seven; 

cows, one thousand and seven hundred; horses, one hundred and 

eighty-one; sheep, one thousand and twenty-three; other live-stock 
not enumerated. How incredible this seems when contrasted with the 
metropolitan city of to-day, and how different must have been the pic- 
ture presented to the travel- worn emigrant of those pioneer days 



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Salt Lake City To-dav. 

Steadily they continued laboring, every man being required at 
some particular time to pay his poll tax in labor on the streets. A 
council house was built on East Temple Street, opposite the Temple 
site, and resolutions were passed against the sale of "spirituous, malt 
or vinous liquors " 

During the latter part of this year a county government was or- 
ganized and the following elected to fill the respective offices. 
Sheriff: John D. Barker; Judge of Probate: Isaac Clark; Recorder 
and Treasurer: Evan M. Green; County Commissioners: David D. 



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Yearsley, Andrew H. Perkins, George Coulson; Magis- 
trates: Jacob B Bigler, William Snow, Levi Bracken, 
Jonathan C Wright; District Clerk: James Sloan. 

The first headquarters of this government was the 
old Bowery, of which previous mention has been made. 
What a change from the old post and board shack of then 
to the magnificent City and County Building of now. Incidental to 
this election two hunting companies were formed under the leadership 



The Per= 

sonnel.of 

the First 

County 

Qovern= 

ment. 




CiTV AND County Building. 

of John D Lee and John Pack The necessity for such a body had long 
existed on account of numerous wild beasts that had infested the colony. 
These companies evidently performed well their duty, since a report 
submitted to Brigham Young in March, 1849, contains entries which 
show that in the first four months of their existence they killed two 
bears, two wolverines, two wild cats, seven hundred and eighty-three 



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wolves, four hundred and nine foxes, thirty-one minks, nine eagles, five 
hundred and thirty magpies, hawks and owls, and one thousand 
and twenty-six ravens. Evidently the hunting companies were 
sorely needed and it is as evident that they performed well their work. 
As yet no monetary unit or circulating medium had been found. 
As a consequence all trading had to be done in kind: that is, if A had 
a pair of boots that B wanted to buy and B had some corn that A 
wished to use, a bargain was effected then and there, but this sort of 
trading was the cause ol endless trouble, worry and disagreements, 
as, if B did not happen to have just what A wanted, B was com - 
pelled to hunt around and find some body who did, and thus it 
often happened, that in order to get any single commodity, one 
would sometimes have to trade with a dozen different people. Gold 

dust was tried, but great inconvenience resulted from the 
Deseret's .... 

waste caused by weighing it. At the instance of Brigham 
First 

^ Young, however, bills were soon issued by the Deseret 

Currency, '^ -^ 

Which Currency Association, whose capital, strange to say, was 
Was Re= composed oi cattle. 

deemable Building was still pursued with the utmost vigor. Al- 

in Cattle, ready the church institutions, a tithing house, a tabernacle, 
a bowery, made of posts and boarding capable of seating eight thou- 
sand people, a social hall, and a Seventies' Hall of Science, were built 
while the Saints all over the world were urged to self-denial, and to 
save the sums which they would otherwise spend for tea, coffee, snuft 
and tobacco These sums were to be devoted toward defraying the 
expenses of building the Temple, which even at that early date had 
been fully planned It must be borne in mind that the Mormons are 
looking for the near advent of Christ and thus their haste to 
build a Temple worthy of his reception. A complete system of irri- 
gation had been put in operation, and through every street of the City 



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ran a pure, clear stream of City Creek water, which was thence 
diverted into garden plats. In the spring of 1849 a carrying company 
was organized to carry settlers and gold-hunters to California. This 
line passed directly through Salt Lake City and was the first method 
of communication that had yet been established between it and the 
outside world. Its post house and the first hotel established in Salt 
Lake City stands yet on the corner of Third South and State Streets, 
opposite the Knutsford Hotel. When the gold excitement first reached 
Salt Lake City, the Saints being but human Saints after all, wanted 
to leave right away for the land of Ophir, but the Apostles rebuked 
them sternly and Brigham Yourg in a sermon delivered on the sub- 
ject in the early pait of October, 1849, said: 

'If we were to go to California and dig up chunks of 

gold, or find it in this Valley, it would ruin us. 1 hope the 

gold mine will be no nearer than eight hundred miles. 

Brigham There is more delusion on this Continent and the people 

Youne on ^^^ more perfectly crazy now than ever before. If you 

Gold Min= elders of Israel want to go to the gold mines, go and be 

. damned! If you go, I would not give a picayune to save 

you from everlasting hell and damnation!" 

In the first 
days of their oc- 
cupation of the 
Valley the Saints 
had made ample 
arrangem e n t s 
and appropria- 
tions for educa- 
tional purposes, 
but in 1850, by a 
The New J\Jormon Tjthjng Store. vote of Congress, 




$25,ooo was appropriated, four fifths of which sum was to be used 
for the purpose of building a State House — which was never built — 
and the other one-fifth for the purpose of founding a library in Salt 
Lake City, and the Utah Delegate to Congress was authorized to select 
the works, several thousand volumes of which were sent to Salt Lake 
and stored in the old Council House that same year. On June 15th, of 
that year, the first number of The Deseret News, a weekly paper, and 
the organ of the Church, was issued. In the first issue occurs the fol- 
lowing gem from the pen ofan unknown author: 

"Let all who would have a good paper, 
Their talents and time ne'er abuse; 
Since 'tis said by the wise and humored 
That the best in the world is the News. 



The First 
Issue of the 



Then ye who so long have been thinking 
What paper this year you will choose, 
Deseret Come trip gaily up to the office 

News. And subscribe for The Deseret News. 

And now, dearest friends, I will leave you; 

This counsel, I pray you don't lose; 
The best of advice I can give you 

Is: Pay in advance for the News." 

The News was instituted under the editorial supervision of Wil- 
lard Richards, a man of fine parts and versatile genius, and the history 
of the paper alone would form an interesting volume. In the first days 
of its career it sold for fifteen cents a copy, and was issued regularly — 
except when paper and type gave out It was then, has always been 
and is now a Church institution, but it has always managed to keep 
above the petty spites and jealousies, and indecent embroglios which 
were all too frequent in the early days With regard to such questions 
as it cares to discuss, it is to-day probably one of the most ably edited 
journals west of the Missouri River. The office is located in the old 
tithing yard on the corner of Main and South Temple Streets. 



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Five years after the arrival of the Pioneer band of Latter- Day 
Saints in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, the United States census 
returns gave the City a population of six thousand males, and by the 
close of 1852, it was estimated that this had increased by four thou- 
sand souls. Indeed every inducement was held out to the Saints to 
immigrate, and during October of 1849 the Perpetual Immigration 
Fund Company was organized. The purpose of this Company was to 
aid in the removal of poor converts from their homes to the Valley 
of the Great Salt Lake. So well did it accomplish this that during the 
forty years of its existence it brought fifty thousand persons 
Th Per- ^^ ^^^ United Stales. In 1852 arrangements were made so 
netual lni= ^^^^ ^^^ Saints were brought from Liverpool, England, to 
migration the Valley of the Great Salt Lake for $50, the overland 
Fund journey from Council Bluffs being usually made with hand- 

Company, carts, in which provisions, tents, blankets, and those who 
Organized ^^^j^ ^^^ ^^U^ ^^^^ carried. 

In this way did come the pioneers and early settlers to 
the haven over the Rockies, to modern Deseret. Guided by the red 
flame of the dying sunset they pursued their way over the dry and arid 
plains to that little collection of adobes nestling by the sea. Small 
wonder, indeed, that homes in the wilderness and on bleak mountain 
sides grew, increased and multiplied. These people were men, brave, 
manly men, made of the stufit that patriots are, and determined to do 
whatsoever lay in their power to found a home in a quiet haven, where 
they might be free from the carping, hypocritical sneers of their ene- 
mies. No power under heaven could have hindered their progress and 
prosperity, as no power under heaven could have hindered and 
quenched the "spirit of '76." 



CHAPTER IV 




^'HEN the first Mormon legions arrived in 
the basin of the Great Salt Lake, had 
they fenced themselves in and allowed 
none but Mormons to come among them, 
it is more than probable that there 
would have been no foul blots en the pages of the 
history of Utah, and certain it is that the amount 
of lies that have been circulated about them would 
have been reduced to a minimum, but with the 
coming of the Gentiles came a discordant spirit, 
and the playing on the harpstrings of Zion was not 
so harmonious as it had been before. 

Through the ages it has been a well recognized fact that govern- 
ment without the consent of the governed is impossible. Until 1849 
the ecclesiastical government of the Mormon Church had been the 
civil government of its members. So far as the members of the 
Church were concerned this sort of government was satisfactory, but 
with the increase of the Gentile population, who would not under any 
circumstances consent to be governed in that way, it was found that a 
civil government, more pronouncedly formal, was an immediate 
necessity. 

The First 

Constitu = 

City the 4th day of March of that year. Delegates were 
tional Con= j -t j j s, 

vention elected and on the appointed day there was "a gather- 
ing of the clans." Albert Carrington, Joseph L. Hey wood. Wm. 
W. Phelps, David Fuller, Charles C. Rich, John Taylor, Parley P. 



It was therefore early in the year 1849 that a Consti- 
tutional Convention was summoned to meet at Salt Lake 



Pratt, John N. Bernhisel and Erastus Snow were appointed a com- 
mittee to draw up the Constitution. In a few days this was done, and 
the Provisional State of Deseret was organized. 

This word Deseret occurs frequently in the Book of 
The Pro= 

Mormon and means "honey-bee," and a beehive was 
visional 

adopted as the emblem of the new state. 
State of ^ 

Deseret ^' ^^^ adopted as a name for the new state because of 




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the comparison between it and Canaan of old, the "land of milk and 

honey." The Constitution was much the same as the Constitution of 

other states, and under its provisions an election was ordered to take 

place on the 12th day of March. 

On that date the Saints assembled in the Bowery, of 
The First . , , 

which building previous mention has been made, for the 
Election 

first time for such a purpose. The successful ticket, which 

Successful PolJ^*^ ^ majority of six hundred and twenty-four votes, was: 
Ticket. Governor, Brigham Young; Secretary of State, Wiliard 

Richards; Marshal, Horace S. Eldredge; Attorney-General, Daniel 
H. Wells; Assessor and Collector, Albert Carrington; Treasurer, 
Newell K. Whitney; Supervisor of Roads, Joseph L Hey wood; 
Judiciary — Heber C Kimball, Chief Justice; John Taylor, Associate 
Justice; Newell K. \A hitney, Associate Justice. 

Not wishing to antagonize the Federal Government, no time was 
lost in the preparation of a memorial which, by the 30th cf April, had 
been signed by two thousand two hundred and seventy persons. Dur- 
ing the first week in July, Almon W. Babbitt was elected Delegate to 
Congress, the memorial was adopted and both sent to Washington. 
On his arrival. Babbitt was given a somewhat chilly reception, and the 
memorial in which he prayed to be seated as a delegate from the Pro- 
visional State of Deseret, was disposed of by the Committee on Elec- 
tions by the adoption of a resolution in which it was stated that it was 
"inexpedient to admit Almon W. Babbitt, Esq., to a seat in this body 
as a delegate from the alleged Provisional State of Deseret." The 
memorial was treated likewise and died in the room of the Committee 
on Territories. 

This was a sore blow to the leaders, who had expected at least 
civilized courtesy, but they managed to plod along until the following 
year, when affairs assumed such a shape that Congress was obliged to 



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take official cognizance, and the self-styled State of Deseret was ad- 
mitted as the Territory of Utah. 

Just why Congress changed the petitioned-for name was then, is 
now and will ever be a secret, unless it may be explained by the pres- 
ence of a majority of mean, small spirits in Congress, who in their deal- 
ings always did just exactly opposite to what the Mormons asked them 
to do. The spelling, indeed, is not correct nor warranted by facts, as 
the name of the Indians is, as it was spelled by the early Spaniards, 
"Yutas." The Ute nation which belongs to the Shoshone family, 
' consists of many tribes. There are the Pah Ules, the Gosh Utes, the 
Derivation Uinta Utes, the Yam Pah Utes and many others. Pah 
of the means water; Pah Guampe,S2\X. water, therefore Pah Utes, 

Word Indians that live by the water. Pah Guampe Utes or Yam 

Utah. Pah Utes, Indians that dwell by the salt water or Salt 

Lake In the Indian language ute means indian, although the Moquis 
spelled the name of the Indians living about the Salt Lake as the early 
Spaniards did, Yutas. Later, however, it was corrupted, so that the 
various periods are marked by "Youta," "Eutaw," "Utaw" and 
"Utah." 

It was on the 7th of September, 1850, that the territory was ad- 
mitted, and in January the following year, the Mormons incorporated 
the town under the name of Great Salt Lake City, under the laws of 
the General Assembly, which body on the 5th of April of the same 
year was dissolved, although it was not until 1852 that Congress con- 
descended to appoint an oliftcial government. On the 8th of August 
of that year by special legislation three judicial districts were defined; 
Utah's the first including the City and County of Great Salt Lake. 

First Fed= By the same act the following roster of officials was an- 
eral Qov= nounced: Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, 
ernment. gj-igham Young; Secretary of State, B. D. Harris; United 



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States Attorney, Seth M. Blair; United States Marshal, Joseph L. Hey- 
wood. Judiciary — Lemuel H. Brandebury, Chief Justice; Percy E. 
Brocchus, Associate Justice; Zerubbabel Show, Associate Justice. 

Rarely has the United States Government appointed gentlemen 
to fill positions of trust where such are most needed — on the frontier. 
Of this roster Brigham Young, Seth M Blair and Joseph L. Heywood 
were Mormons, while the others were ignorant boors, who labored 
under the idea that Mormonism was legalized prostitution, and ac- 
cepted their positions as missionaries would. Judge Brocchus had not 
been in the City twenty -four hours before he commenced to lecture 
and preach against it. He even went so far as to address the General 
Conference of the Mormons with a long, stilted and vulgar argument 
against it. When asked to apologize for his insults he refused to do so. 

So obnoxious was the government of these men that Utah again 
sought admission as a state in January, 1854 Another memorial was 
placed in the care of John M. Bernhisel, and both were again ignored 
when presented to Congress. In this year John F. Kinney succeeded 
Brandebury as Chief Justice, and of all the officials ever sent to Utah 
Kinney was most popular In his history of these times Bancroft 
gives a most interesting picture of him. 

'Rotund, of vinous aspect, of medium height, dull witted, 
brusque of manner and pompous in mien, he was a man 
An Utah whom Brigham knew well how to use, and so well was he 
Judge of used that before taking leave of the Mormons he became 
Ye Olden an open apologist for polygamy. On his arrival in Salt 
Time. Lake City, he added to his judicial functions the occupa- 

tion of storekeeper and boarding-house proprietor. He never lost the 
good- will of his patrons and never refused to drink with them." 

The men who did more than aught else to bring the trouble be- 
tween the United States and the Mormons was Associate Justice W. W. 



2g 

Drummond. This man deserted his wife and children, leaving them 
without means of support in a small town in Illinois With him, to 
Utah, he brought a harlot from the haunts of the demi-mondaine of 
Washington. Here was a direct issue presented: "Shall we admit 
him to our homes and firesides?" asked the Mormon husbands and 
fathers, and the answer was a large and emphatic no! When this de- 
cision was made known, the worst in the man's character manifested 
What itself, and throughout all his reports with regard to Utah 

Judge affairs, made to the authorities and filed in Washington, 

Drum- occur the most patent falsehoods. 

Mostly on account of these lies, and also in order to 
satisfy the demand of the party politicians for more patronage, Presi- 
dent James Buchanan determined that Brigham Young should be de- 
posed as Governor of the Territory, and it was also determined that a 
body of armed men should be sent to uphold the dignity and authoiity 
of his successor It was one bright sunshiny morning in July, 1857, 
that the news oi this was first delivered to the Saints, twenty-five hun- 
dred of whom were assembled in the Cottonwood Canon, celebrating 
the Pioneer Anniversary. The day had been spent in feasting and re- 
joicing, and tired out with play the children had fallen asleep with their 
heads in their mother's laps, while the fathers either fished or swapped 
stories under the trees near by. On the summer stillness there was 
borne the sound of hoof beats. In a moment every thing was conlu 
sion, for a visitor from the outside world was always an event in the 
quiet life of the mountain dwellers in those days of long ago. Men 
Buchan= jumped to their feet to welcome the friend or repel the 
an's De= enemy. What was their surprise when Abraham O. Smoot, 
cision and Mayor of the City, proprietor ol the mail route, and super- 

intendent of the Brigham Young express, galloped upon 

mon War. , . ,. . , , • 1 n • 1 a/ r .l 

his foammg pony and whispered to Bngfiam Young of trie 



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approach of the army. Mr. Smoot had been on his way to Inde- 
pendence, when informed of the approach of the army. Entrusting 
the delivery of his mail bags to an attendant he galloped back to 
spread the news. 

Driven from home after home, compelled to undergo the most 
discouraging hardships, forced to see their wives and children perish 
with cold and starvation, saints though they were, this information was 
received with derision. Old Glory meant nothing to them, for its silk- 
en folds waving in the summer breezes of Missouri and in the icy 
blasts ot an Illinois winter, had been the ensignia of authority of a 
brutal mob which pillaged their glorious temple at Nauvoo, burned 
their houses at Independence and killed their leader at Carthage. 
That emblem of hberty, of free speech, and free conscience meant for 
them naught but pillage and rapine, starvation and death. All eyes 
and all hopes turned upon Brigham, and Brigham's answer was, "War 
to the knife." 

When General Harney, in command of the Army of Utah, heard 

of this he remarked: 

What Gen. "' ^"^ ordered there, and I'll winter in that valley or 

Harney I'll winter in hell." 

Said. Had General Harney continued in command it is more 

than likely that he would have "wintered in hell;" but his 
services being again required in Kansas, Colonel Albert Sidney John- 
ston succeeded him. If Colonel Johnston could have taken immediate 
charge, it is more than probable that much that is contained in history 
would not have occurred; but Colonel Alexander, a young and inex- 
perienced officer, who was entirely unfit for such momentous duty, 
was in command and determined to fulfill Harney's threats to the 
letter, and in accordance with this determination pressed on towards 
Salt Lake City, disregarding all warnings to the contrary. All able- 



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bodied Mormons in Deseret had 
been organized under the com- 
mand of General Daniel H. Wells. 
The result was that in October of 
that year, a party of Mormons was 
sent out under Lot Smith, and 
Colonel Alexander's supply trains 
were burned. Thus commenced 
the Mormon war. 

The spirit of resistance of 
the Mormons, together with the 
absurdity of the Administration'^ 
policy, awakened sympathetic 
remonstrances from the best peo- 
ple all over the country, so that 
yielding to the pressure of public 
opinion Mr. Buchanan, on the 
6th day of April, issued a proclamation, granting amnesty to the 
Mormons, and dispatched it by L. W. Powell and Major B Mc- 
Culloch to Brigham Young. 

One month later they reached Salt Lake City, the newly ap- 
pointed governor, Alfred Cumming, arriving next day. On the loth of 
The End of June a consultation was called with Brigham Young, Heber 
the r\or= C. Kimball and Daniel H. Wells. Arrangements were 
mon War. completed satisfactorily, and June 26th, 1858, the Army of 
Utah entered the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. But they 
entered a deserted city; not a Mormon was to be found; every house 
was vacant, and according to his threat every arrangement had been 
made by Brigham Young to burn every house in the city should 
the soldiers attempt to occupy them Orders were issued that this 



Gen. Daniel H. Wells. 



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should not be done, and the Mormons were inducedj to return and 
occupy their homes. In this manner did the Gentile and the United 
States government take charge of the fertile valley that the Mormons 
had carved for themselves out of the bleak and dreary wastes of the 
Great American Desert. 

And so ended the Mormon war. 








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CHAPTER V. 




ASSING over the succeeding years of trials, 
troubles, and tribulation; leaving unchronicled 
that which has been chronicled so many times 
before; the heartaches and worries of a new 
people in a new country, leaving unexplained 
that which will be explained by old Father 
ime; the myriad lies and calumnies against the 
Mormon people, leaving behind the years of oppres- 
sion and toil, and passing to the present, one finds 
Salt Lake the radiant gem of the continent, set be- 
tween pearls of Utah Lakes and mounted in the heart of the Rockies 
The fairest visions ever dreamed by her founders are being reaUzed. 
Retrospec=The unkindly soil, whose sympathy seems to have been 
tive and awakened by the tears of its oppressed owners, has 



Perspec= 
tive; also 



yielded up the richest of fruits, the fairest of flowers, the 

greenest of verd"re, and upon the atmosphere of the yclept 
Descrip= 

desert is born the carols of birds mingled with the sweet, 
tive. ° 

sad sighing of the zephyrs through the tall straight poplar trees, 
while the booming of the salt sea waves on the beach of the Great 
Salt Lake lends a grand sonorous bass. 

No longer is Salt Lake an over-grown country town, but a com- 
pactly built, metropolitan city of sixty-five thousand and seventy-six 
souls. In the summer sunlight its tall buildings do ever glisten and 
glimmer, and the golden cross of the Roman CathoHc church glitters 
in the perpetual sunshine, almost side by side with the Jewish syna- 
gogue and the Angel Moroni on the Temple tower. Its magnificent 
school buildings dot the city hither and thither, fit monuments to the 



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progress of American institutions and American men. No longer can 
she be taunted with the title, as she can no longer be considered "A 
Mormon Curiosity Shop." True it is that the Mormons are here yet 
as they will ever be here and as they have a right to be here, but the 
old scars have been cicatrized and Mormon and Gentile now dwell to- 
gether as man and man and as Christian and Christian should, so that 
in these latter days Z. C. M I. is as much patronized by 
Gentile as by Mormon. 

And by the way, Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Insti- 
tution deserves more than a passing notice. It is without 
a doubt the largest mercantile institution between the 
Rockies and the Pacific, and was organized in the winter of 
1868, commenced business in March, 1869, and was incorporated 
December ist, 1870. Throughout its existence it has acted as the 



Zion's 

Co=opera- 

tive Mer= 

cantile 

lnstitu= 

tion. 




Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution. 



commercial balance of not only Salt Lake City, but of entire Utah. 
It was in 1868, that Brigham Young, the very backbone, the 
head and heels of Salt Lake's prosperity, conceived the idea of estab- 
lishing a mercantile institution of, by and for the people. Calling to- 
gether George A. Smith, Daniel H. Wells, John Taylor, Wilford 
Woodruff, Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Charles C. Rich, Erastus Snow. 
Lorenzo Snow, Franklin D. Richards, George Q. Cannon Brigham 
Young, Jr. and Albert Carrington, compiled and issued a circular 
which waa spread broadcast among the saints, calling upon them for 
their support and co-operation This was freely given, and so it was 
that Zion's Co operative Mercantile Institution was organized. Prior 
to this time Mormon and Gentile were alike subject to corners every 
few days, and Franklin D. Richards, the present historian of the Mor- 
mon Church, tells many interesting stories of the days when all the 
sugar in the Territory was cornered and a dollar a pound asked and 
paid for it. All the commodities of life were subject to a like maneuver- 
ing by the embryonic "Napoleons of Finance' 'of those days Thissoit 
of thing became 
so common that 
the necessity for 
doing away with 
it became well 
recognized 
among the far- 
seeing men, and 
the result was 
the organiza- 
tion of the now 
famous Z C 
M. I. Dry Goods Department. 




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Historical 
Facts and 
Figures 
With 



The first place of business occupied by the Institution was the 
Old Eagle Emporium building, at that time owned by and rented of 
William Jennings, a prominent member of the Board of Directors. 
With the lapse of time this building was found too small, and additions 
were made as demanded, but at length it expanded as much as it could, 
and it was determined to purchase a site large enough to 
permit its free and unrestricted growth. In 1876 this de- 
termination was carried into effect, and a lot 100 x 305 feet 
was purchased for the sum of $30,000. Upon this a brick 
Regard to building was erected, having a frontage of 100 feet and a 
Z, C. M. I- depth from East to West of 318 feet, three stories in 
height and basement. The walls of the building are of rock and 
brick, and the roof and front of iron. Without the land the build- 
ing cost a little over $200 000, and was occupied in March, 1876. 
Since then it has grown wonderfully. On the north of the main 
building an addition of 65x150 feet has been added, making the total 
frontage on Main Street 165 feet, and from having branch houses at 
Ogden and Lo- 
gan and a ware- 
house at Provo, 
it has expand- 
ed so that branch 
houses of Z. C. 
M. I. now dot 
the face of the 
map of Utah al 
most as frequent- 
ly as does its 
many small towns 
and cities. Be- Shoe Department. 




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fore the panic of 

1S73 its annual 

sales amounted 

to over |;5,ooo, - 

000, and in 18S3, 

ten years later, 

it had recovered 

all but $[,000,- 

000 per year ot 

that. 

And now it 

may be interest- ^ ^ 

Clothing Department. 

ing to take a look at the man who has always been the bulwark of this 

monstrous institution. Thomas G. Webber is a gentleman — a 

Thomas Q. gentleman of the old school, thoroughly polite and 

Webber, a courteous to the beggar and the capitalist alike For a 

Gentleman gj-g^j ^lany years he has controlled the business 

of this institution, and has placed it among the 
School. 

foremost business houses of the world. An mde- 

fatigable worker, a thorough disciplinarian, familiar with every detail 
of the institution's business, he has won the respect and esteem of 
every man, woman and child who knows him. So well are his busi- 
ness instincts known, and so highly are they respected by the Board 
of Directors that his judgment is never questioned, and to Thomas G. 
Webber, more than to any one else, perhaps, belongs the honor of the 
fact that the credit of Z. C M. I. stands first-class to-day, and that 
its wholesale operations throughout Utah have been perfected. So 
thoroughly has he worked and so well, that to-day every one who 
knows him speaks of him as "The Prince of Managers." 

Many things have contributed toward this annihilation of the 



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old feelings of ani- 
mosity and hate. 
Principal of all 
these causes was 
the coming of the 
railroads. When 
the last spike 
nailed the last rail 
into the last tie of 
the Union Pacific 
Railroad, on that 
Grocery Department . memorable May 

morning in 1868, the sky grew just a little brighter, for the angels 
must have smiled in anticipation of the glorious dawn of the brighter 
and higher civilization and better understanding that was to come. 
Another grand teacher was the opening of the silver mines, which oc- 
cured in 1870 and 1871. When it became known that Utah's hills, 
the Wasatch and Oquirrhs, were full of the glistening white metal, the 
Gentiles poured over the range, swarmed into the valley, took posses- 
sion of Deseret, and again the angels must have smiled. Then came 
J^^Q the Rio Grande Western Railroad, and the first iron horse 

Coming that plodded its way through the Royal Gorge, through 
of the the canyon of the Gunnison, through the green fields of 

Rio Grande Utah, plodded its way over one of the grandest pieces of 
civil engineering the world has ever or will ever know. 
Over no other line on earth can one ride in a sumptuous 
Pullman car and view the magnificent mountain scenery that one can 
see in a single twenty-four hours' ride over the Rio Grande Western. 
In a single day's journey over "The Great Salt Lake Route" the 
tourist can see snow drifts of Tennessee Pass, men working in their 



Western 
Railroad. 



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f^ 




shirt sleeves in the orchards of 
Grand Junction and Utah farmers 
driving with their loads of early 
berries to a local market. In Au- 
gust of 1889 came the boom. 

What an institution this boom 
is; purely American! No one 
ever heard of the booming of 
Rome. Ancient history tells not 
of the booming of Babylon and 
Sennacherib, but this is probably 
because the American real estate 
dealer was unknown in those 
days. It is an easy matter to 
boom a place if one knows how 
and of that "know how" the 
American real estate agent has a supply beyond his needs. If he 
gets a chance he will boom Jerusalem some day as he boomed Salt 
Lake in the memorable summer of 1889. 

It was on account of this boom that some of the boldest Gentile 
An Elec= spirits conceived the idea of attempting to carry the City 
tion of Ye election of the spring of 1890. That campaign and that 
Days election shall ever stand out as the fiercest ever fought and 

Agone. ^^^ hardest ever won by political parties in America. Mor- 
mon against Liberal! Mormon fighting for what, by past experience, he 
considered home and fireside, and church and God ! Fighting as only 
desperate men can fight when there is everything to lose and every- 
thing to gain ! Fighting with heart and brain ! Fighting for wives 
and children ! Fighting for the fair empire fortified here by mountain 
walls! Liberal fighting for the property he had so lately >on! Fight- 



T. G. Webbkr, Supt Z. C. M. I. 



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ing for future supremacy! Fighting for the land which, for a half 
century, had been held in fee simple by the Latter-day Saints! Fight- 
ing for one of the fairest spots on the footstool! Fighting for the 
American home! Fighting against Church dictation in municipal 
affairs I It was a battle royal! A battle of giants! A battle where 
brain was measured by brain; where votes where counted by ones 
and twos and threes; where ma- 
jorities were estimated by tens 
and twenties and thirties. The 
Gentiles won. A majority of 700 
votes decided the battle, and the 
Mormons were overpowered by 
weight of numbers They gave 
in peaceably and quietly; no 
frauds were claimed and no 
necessity was found for a modern 
Lexow. The two contending 
parties have now settled down 
with the everlasting glory and 
prosperity of Salt Lake as 
their objective point. They are 
laboring hard toward the end 
that Salt Lake may be the most beautiful city on the continent and the 
home of the Angel of Peace. The old question has been buried, and 
on the tombstone above its head is the inscription : ' Pax Vobiscum. 

Already, indeed, with her broad streets, her substantial buildings, 
her beautiful home- like residences, Salt Lake is acknowledged as the 
most beautiful city on the continent, and sometimes, when the shadows 
are growing longer, as I stand here and watch the God of Day en- 
fold himself in his royal garments of purple and crimson, and see 




George M. Scott, 
First Gentile Mayor cf Salt Lake City 



41 

The the light from his flaring night lamp, gild and redden the 

Crimson tall church spires and myriad rooftops of the city here, and 
Veil and as I see the purple shadows creep about the base of the 
the Purple Wasatch, whose peaks have donned their night-caps and 
Garments ^j^^^.^ dwells his comrade, Old Chinook, and then as I 

of the u- • 1 

see him sink to rest upon tne bosom of his mistress the 
God of 

Great Salt Lake, leaving behind him only a golden lace-like 

cloud; only a golden bit of lace, poised between the sapphire 
of Heaven, and the dull hue of old Mother Earth, poised there in its 
radiant glory, as if to show the transcendant beauty of the curtains of 
the couch upon which he rests, I am struck dumb with the glory of it 
all and think: 

Ah, Salt Lake, thou art indeed beautiful With thy sad, 

An Apos= , . ^ , . • , , 

sad memories oi the misty past; with the many thoughts 
trophe 

that must ever cluster about thy most sacred spots; with 
to Salt ^ ^ 

L k C't ^^^ Stories that shall ever be told of the toil and the labor 
that was done for thee, Salt Lake, thy name must ever be 
hallowed in haunts where men do mostly dwell. Rear thy head 
proudly! Look about thee! Shade thine eyes and look over the 
range toward yon distant shimmering waves of the broad Atlantic! 
Gaze toward the ice-bound regions of the Arctic Pole! Turn thine eyes 
upon the heaving bosom of the Southern main; upon the cotton fields 
of Georgia; upon the tropic orange-groves of Florida, by whose sides 
the Indian River softly purrs, and where the Oklawaha sweetly sings! 
Gaze again over the snow crowned Sierras! Cast thine eyes upon the 
vineyards and orchards of the Land of Gold! Gaze upon the Ocean 
of Balboa, peacefully smiling in the tropic sunlight; and if thou, Salt 
Lake, seest in all this broad domain, a city greater than thee, thou 
must be of good heart, for the day is coming when thou shah unfurl 
thy banner from yon Wasatch ridge; when thy name shall be honored 



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among men; when thou, SaU Lake, the romantic, the picturesque, the 
beautiful, the sad, shalt have thy fame spread broadcast in the high- 
ways and byways of the dull old earth. The day is dawning, Salt Lake; 
in the East I see the first red streaks of the morning sunrise; the Sun 
of Prosperity is rising from the Sea of Oblivion; in his Rays of Plenty 
thou shalt bask as a child in the summer sunlight. 




Salt Lake for the Homeseeker. 



PROLOGUE. 
^^URELY this is the Land of Peace! Surely this is the Fairy Land, 
(@^ where elfs and pygmies gambol on the soft, green sward under 
the trees! It is Ell Land, indeed; for one can hear their bugles 
calling through the balmy stillness of the spring-like days! It is the 
Land of Flowers and Sunshine! It is the Land of Angel Boats that 
scud across the soft, blue bosom of the Skyland Sea. It is the Land of 
Imagination where Fancy roams beyond the purple- clad Wasatch, 
over the blue- crowned Oquirrhs, through the Golden Gates whose pil- 
lars are set in the sapphire of Heaven by the dying beams of its peer- 
less sunset! It is Poetry Land; for on the Zephyrus breezes that come 
from their homes in the mountain canyons far away, there is breathed 
in the ear of him who listens the grand old measure of an Epic of God ! 
It is the Artist Land; for under the nimble brush of old Mother Nature, 
tall buildings are glorified, and around the tops of chimneys, that belch 
forth blackest smoke, there hovers a halo when the day is done! It is 
the Land where the Soul finds its freedom, where the Spirit breathes 
the freer, where the God-like seems to have found the longed-for Home 
beyond the clouds! Surely this is the Ideal Land, and he who seeks 
such need seek no farther than the city that lies in the shadow of 
Moroni. 

In the iridescent Hght of the waning sunset the Angel Moroni 
stands, on the tallest Temple spire, wrapped in his cloak of gold, an 
unceasing vigil over the tombs of the questions that have perished and 



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gone. With his trumpet pointed toward the sapphire of Heaven, he 
stands ever a fitting memorial over the grave of Hate. Maybe he 
thinks at times of the scenes that were enacted here in the dark and 
bitter long ago. No more will they come. That day and age are past. 
Wrapped in the solitude of his lofty position, Moroni reflects upon the 
folly of man. Maybe sometimes in his musing he sings; for somehow 
or other on the quiet stillness of a summer evening this carol was 
borne to me: 

Peace, Peace, Peace be still! 

Is the lauguage of Him of long ago. 
Peace, Peace, Peace be Ptill! 

Is the measure we sing so soft and low. 




CHAPTER 1. 

WAS talking with a little boy, whose home 
is in Laramie, not a great while ago, and 
I asked him : 

"Son, what do you think of Salt Lake 
City?" 

"It is a very pretty place," was the 
answer. 

"What do you think of it as com- 
,, ,. pared with Laramie ? 

^,^^-$ / ;■»--: ' It doesn t seem to me to be so far west, was the 

' '''^' - --' iy.""- 
' .;v ' answer he gave me with what I considered a startlingly 

^ clear perception of the conditions that obtain. 
Carleton. is a bright boy. He has never been any farther east 





Residence of W. A. Nelden. 



Fred A. Hale, Architect. 



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?!/• 1 



iina^ 



-* -~'' _ Jim*-*:, 

4 



>ni 





■>!l**»»^ 



' <?,s'\=bt.\e 



Residence of W. S McCoknick 
than Omaha, but has lived in an atmosphere of information, and com- 
paring the appearance of Salt Lake with what he has heard and read 
of Eastern cities, has therefore concluded that, so far as actual purposes 
and conditions go, the former is not quite so Western. 

Salt Lake, indeed, notwithstanding the inexorable demands of the 
geographer, and the implacable fact of latitude, is farther East than 
West. It is, indeed, a garden spot, and the old Mormons made good 
their words when they threatened to make the desert blossom as the 
rose. It is now a compactly built city, whose tendencies are purely 
modern. The oft-repeated slur that it is the city of a 
polygamous theocracy, no longer obtains in either fact or 
theory, and the man who says so today utters a lie, and any 
sensible man knows it to be such. The reasons why the 
man with a competency, a family and the wherewithal 
Lake City, to maintain a home should found it in Salt Lake in prefer- 



People 
Who Are 
Not 

Wanted 
in Salt 



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ence to any where else, are manifold. That is the class that is here, 
and that is the class that is wanted. Journalists and newspaper men, 
unless they are traveling, are not wanted. Gentlemen who wish to 
depict a Salt Lake sunset had better keep away also, as they will have 
their labor, their time, and a depleted purse for their pay. No power 
under heaven can make, as no power under heaven can set upon can- 
vas the wondrous coloring of a Salt Lake sunset. Heretics and in- 








Residence of Richard Mackintosh. 

Fred A. Hale, Architect. 



fidels will find in this a proof that there is a God, and if they don't 
they had better give Salt Lake a wide berth. Carpenters, 
masons, blacksmiths, stone-cutters and miners receive 



People 
Who Are 
Wanted 
in Salt 
Lake City 



union wages. 

As noted before, however, there is every advantage for 
the man who wishes to build and found a home here, and 
of all the hospitable people upon earth, none will be found 



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more hospitable than the pale-faces, in whose favor the kindly and 
gentle Yutus abdicated many years ago. 

As to the expense attached to founding and building a home 
here no estimate can be given, as the taste and means of each in- 
dividual would govern him in selecting a site and building material. 
That is an architect's business anyhow, and Salt Lake has one of the 
finest in the country. Many are the stately buildings and beautiful 
residences that have grown to exquisite materialization under the 
clever direction of Fred A. Hale. Mr. Hale is a master of his profes- 
sion. He is not 




1 1 ^ s 



ipk 






CO.MMERCIAL BloCK. 

Fred A. Hale, Architect. 



machine-like, but 
executes the own- 
er's idea rather 
than the owner's 
orders. The Com- 
mercial Block, one 
of the most state- 
ly office buildings 
of Salt Lake City, 
was designed by 
him, and erected 
under his per- 
sonal supervision. 
Many of Salt 
Lake's finest resi- 
dences were also 



designed by Mr. Hale, and Denver also contains many monuments to his 
genius. An architect's profession is unlike any other. His good or 
bad work stands always as his reward or reproach. Mr. Hale has 
erected no reproaches. 



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It is therefore sufficient to state that the law of compensation ob- 
tains here as elsewhere. If lumber costs more labor costs less, and if 
one wishes to build a house of brick or stone, nowhere on earth can 
he build it so cheaply as here. It is almost impossible to draw ade- 
quate word- pictures of the many beautiful spots that abound here that 
could be made more beautiful by the addition of pretty residences. 
Surely if a man is aesthetic in his tastes he cannot gratify them any 
where so well as here, for it must be borne in mmd that Salt Lake is 
not a relic of the barbaric west, but a city where the usages of civiHzation 
ever obtain. The cowboy with flapping sombrero, and protruding 
Colt's has gone never to return, and uncouth manners is as much a cur- 
iosity in this City of the Saints as in the Hub of the Universe — the home 
of Theosophy and beans. As a matter of fact learning is much appreci- 
ated in Salt Lake, and indeed its climate seems to be conducive to the 
highest development of the mind and body. So far as climate is con- 
cerned, no region on earth can compare with it, since no region on earth 
knows what it is to have the ocean breezes and the mountain zephyrs 

mingle. One must ponder over this a moment and before he 
Where the 
^ I - can comprehend what it means, since there is absolutely no 

Breezes other locality on earth where the mountain breezes are la- 
and den with the odor of salt. 

Mountain There are no sandstorms in Salt Lake, no cyclones. 

Zephyrs blizzards, no tornadoes, nor earthquakes. Boreas on his 
Mingle. round of destruction never climbed the slopes and 
over the peaks of the Wasatch and Oquirrhs. The frozen fields of the 
Dakotas, the sun-parched plains of Nebraska, and the sun-laden 
winds of Kansas are alike unknown in this Brobdinagnian cell of the 
Rockies. The climate possesses a virtue of its own, a peculiar prop- 
erty, so to speak, that seems to be more conducive to study and men- 
tal application. It is a well known fact that children thrive better in 



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the public schools of Salt Lake City than in other places whose princi- 
pal boast is the number, elegance and high -standing of their Temples 
to Young America. So far as educational advantages are concerned, 
Salt Lake is without a peer on the footstool. 

_,. i-i' h '^^^ University of Utah has not made much of a stir in 

Standing the educational world, but its curriculum is unsurpassed, 
of the andthe^(?rj<7«/z<f/of its faculty unrivaled. Robert Harkness, 
University the Chancellor, is a man of scholarly attainments and 
of Utah, liberal views. Under his jurisdiction the University has 




Residence of E. S. DkGolyer. East Waterloo. 

Fred A. Hale, Architect. 

been perfected, so that now, every advantage oftered by the older uni- 
versities are possessed by the University of Utah, and the crimson and 
white will be heard from some day. Rowland Hall, a Protestant 
Episcopal school for young ladies, has grown so thoroughly and well 
under the espionage and principalship of Miss Clara L Colburne, that 
it is now recognized as one of the best schools in the city, and the 
Alumni banquets given by the young women graduates each year have 
grown to be social events. The Collegiate Institution operated under 
the direction of the Presbyterian mission is an excellent ' 'Prep. ' ' school 



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The Congregfation Church supports the Salt Lake College. All Hal- 
lows College, a Roman Catholic school, is a most excellent institution. 
So widely is its worth recognized, that it already boasts of seventy- 
five boarding and one hundred day pupils St. Mary's Academy, also 
a Roman Catholic institution erected in 1891, has grown most rapidly. 
Even during the panic they had over a hundred and fifty boarding and 
two hundred day pupils. St. Joseph's Institute, also a sectarian 
school, is operated for the benefit of the small boys. Prof Andre's 
School of Music, Languages and Fencing, is well patronized, and its 

very existence is conclusive proof that the accomplishments 
Salt Lake's 

are not neglected In addition to all these private schools 
Private 

there is a superfluity of business colleges, at the head of a 

Public ^ong list of which stands the Salt Lake Business College; 

Schools. the Utah Shorthand, is another of the institutions whose 

business it is to furnish a practical education for practical uses There 
are also twenty one public schools in the city, all of which are housed 
in magnificent buildings. These are one of Salt Lake's distinctive 
features, as nowhere else in the country can there be found such ele- 
gant and well built school buildings 

Another thing that the homeseeker will find in Salt Lake City is 
one of the most modern and complete gas and electric light plants in 
the country. It is now known as the Salt Lake & Ogden Gas and 
Electric Light Company and is the improved plant of the old Salt 

Lake Gas Companys, which plant was purchased in 1893 and 
The 

. immediately incorporated under its present name. So 

& Ogden soo" ^^ the final arrangements had been made, improve- 

Qas & ments were planned and begun with the result that by the 

Electric spring of 1894 the gas mains had been gready extended 

Light and the capacity of the power house and generating plants 

Company, greatly increased. In the latter part of that year the first 



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Natural Gas Wells. 



rumblings of the natural gas wells were heard and this company im- 
mediately investigated these rumors with the result that a main thir- 
^^ _ ^_^ ^^ = T.^ e en miles long was laid 

at once and natural gas 
is at present being de- 
livered all over the resi- 
dence portion of the 
city. All this was ac- 
complished by March of 
1895, only two years 
after the purchase ot the 
old and inadequate plant of the Salt Lake Gas Company. Arrange- 
ments are now being made to utilize the water power of the Big Cot- 
tonwood and before another year roils around electricity will be gen- 
erated there and brought over the wires thirteen miles to the city, 
where it will be sold to consumers cheaper than any other city on the 
continent can afiford to sell it. Already electricity is sold twenty-five 
per cent, cheaper in Salt Lake City than in any similar sized city in the 
country, all of which is in spite of the high price of coal and labor. 

The plant is controlled by an English Syndicate, which deserves 
the highest credit for its uniform enterprise and exertions in behalf of 
the people of Salt Lake City. They have built a plant larger than 
that possessed by any city of similar size in the country, and instead 
of keeping in mind the all-prevailing sentiment of dividend, have given 
1^, p^ more attention to the quality of their product and the 

Hayward, promptness and thoroughness of supply 
Its Mr. R. F. Hayward, the General Manager, is a gentle- 

General jjj^j^ Qf integrity, probity and thorough business methods. 
anager. ^ thorough discipHnarian, a well-bred gentleman, and 
above all a man who sees his duty and does it. Mr. Hayward is such 



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a man that no one knows but to praise. He has selected a thorough 
and efficient office staff andf corps of sub managers whose particular 
pride it is to emulate the example of their chief, and in this way the 
business of this institution moves'always without a jar or rumble. 




CHAPTER II. 




N ALL men there is born a belief in a Ruling 
Power, and no matter how much he himself 
may neglect and ignore the existence of 
j churches and religions, he is certain to 
want them for his family. So far as re- 
ligious advantages are concerned, Salt 
Lake has them of all sizes, shapes, sects, 
degrees and colors. 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- 
day Saints, otherwise known as Mormons, 
is now, as it has always been, and as it is 
natural for it to be, numerically the strongest religious society in the 
city. But it is a constant source of surprise to visitors to learn that 
Salt Lake has a church of every other religious denomination under 
the sun, and most of the buildings owned by these societies are large. 
Salt elegant and commodious. In fact there is but little to re- 

Lake's mind the stranger who sits in any one of the many con- 

Churches, gregations any Sunday morning during the year that he is 
in a Mormon community. Altogether there are over fifteen Christian 
churches and nearly twenty Sunday schools in this city. 

As early as 1864, D. S. Tuttle, a bishop of the Episcopal church, 
visited Salt Lake and organized a coagregation, which has so increased 
in numbers that it is today the largest, and perhaps the wealthiest of all 
the denominations in the city. St. Mark's Cathedral and improve- 
ments are worth nearly a hundred thousand dollars. The hospital alone 
cost nearly twenty thousand dollars, while the building in which Row- 
land Hall is located was erected at a cost of about thirty-five thousand 



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dollars. The Episcopalians also own St. Paul's Chapel, erected at a 
cost of about twenty thousand dollars, and St. Peter's Chapel, whose 
erection cost nearly eight thousand dollars. Of the Cathedral, Rev, 
A. K. Hall is Rector, and Rev. L B. Ridgely is Priest-in charge 
of the chapels. 

It was two years after the visit of Bishop Tuttle that the first 
Catholic Priest (since the time of the Franciscan Friars) visited Salt 
Lake City. After casting around and locating a site, he went back 

to California 




i'^^(h 



III 




Annex to the Mormon Temple. 



from whence he 
came, to collect 
the wherewith- 
al to build a 
church. So sue 
cessful was he 
that he returned 
to Salt Lake City 
the following 
year and pur- 
chased the site for St. Mary's Cathedral. On account of the dangers 
and difficulties that used to beset the missionaries of those early 
days, the Cathedral was not finished until 1872. Its membership has 
increased so rapidly as to now require the services of ten priests and a 
bishop. 

There are two organized churches and four Sunday schools of the 
Congregational faith located here. The membership of each of the 
churches is very large, while the Sunday schools have an enrollment 
of nearly two hundred pupils each. The Presbyterians have two 
organized churches. Each of these boast of a large congregation 
and are well supported. The Methodist Protestant has two churches; 



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Residence of F. B. Stephens. 

Fred A. Hale, Architect. 

the Methodist has three. The First Methodist Episcopal Church 
on Third South Street, the Scandinavian Mission and the Iliff, 
named in honor of Dr. T. C. Iliff, one of the best known and ablest 
ministers of the Gospel in Utah, are the three flourishing congrega- 
tions under the direction of the latter of the above named denomina- 
tions. The Baptists have two congregations. These are growing very 
rapidly, and in charge of their churches are some well known and able 
expounders of the Christian religion. The Scandinavian Lutherans 
have a church which cost nearly sixteen thousand dollars, and a mem- 
bership of nearly two hundred souls. There is also an English 
Evangelical church, and the Unitarians have a society which is in a 
flourishing condition. The Y. M. C. A. is a large and growing body 
of religiously inclined young men. They have an excellent suite of 
rooms in the Holmes Block on State Street in which is housed a very 
excellent library. The membership is growing, and the Y. M. C. A. 
may really be said to be in a very prosperous condition. 



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Aside from all the above-mentioned churches, and in addition to 
those that may have been overlooked, and the orthodox Mormons' 
there is also a sect that calls itself the Reorganized Church of Jesus 
Christ of Latter-day Saints. This sect accepts Mormonism as taught 
prior to the revelation with regard to polygamy. It is a flourishing 
denomination, and owns property valued at almost fifteen thousand 
dollars. There is also a Jewish synagogue whose congregation mounts 
well up into the hundreds. 

From all of the above it may be easily seen that the man who 
can not be satisfied with regard to his religious inclinations in Salt Lake 
City, is exceedingly hard to please. Through the trees all over the 
city, the tall church spires do ever glitter, standing out in bold 
relief against the royal purple of the distant gray-haired Wasatch. 



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CHAPTER in. 

f N THE social world do women find their true em- 
pire, and whatever the bills, the average man 
is glad to have his family mingle with those 
among whom courtesy, culture, polish and po- 
liteness obtain. The social world of Salt Lake 
City is such an one. It is altogether a mistaken no- 
tion to suppose that the old conditions obtain yet, for it 
is not so. It is true that for forty years there was a divid- 
ing Hne, an indefinable sort-of-a-something, that separated the Gentile 
social world from the Mormon social world by a bar much stronger 
than steel. Today this is over and done with, and from the outward 
complexion of any one of the many delightful functions given in either 
Gentile or Mormon homes, the stranger would never suspect that he 
beheld a mingling of the clans. Nowhere indeed, are the social affaires 
more brilliant than in Salt Lake, because there yet lingers 

a bit of the old time simplicity and a tinge of the old school 
Salt Lake. 

courtesy, components of the true social existence that has 

been partially emasculated by the education of social forms and super- 
ficiality, all too prevalent in the older communities. The women will 
find many bright gatherings in Salt Lake, for afternoon teas, "crushes' ' 
and receptions are as much in vogue here as in any other city of the 
country. These functions seem to possess a peculiar charm of their own 
in Salt Lake. There is something in the atmosphere that makes 
one more artistic. There is something in the very air that makes one 
more hospitable, and the amount of care bestowed upon even the or- 
dinary affairs of life by these mountain folk, astonishes and charms the 
beholder who expects to find uncouth manners and want of culture, 



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conditions so long thought synonymous with life in the "wild and 
woolly West." Music, art.tliterature, all[have their quota of attention 
Music P*^*^ ^^ them, [notwithstanding the inducement held out to 

Literature one to live out of doors. Salt Lake's Choral Society, com - 
and Art. posed of three hundred voices, has received the highest en- 
comiums wherever it has appeared. At present there is an opera 
company composed exclusively of Salt Lake talent. This company 
started away a 
few weeks ago to 
tour the country, 
and some of their 
press notice al- 
ready received 
are fulsome in 
their expressions 
of praise . Pris- 
cilla, an opera, 
was presented at 
the Salt Lake 
Theatre this 
spring by local 
theatrical talent 
In its method of Residence of Edward H. Airis 

presentation this opera was exquisite to say the least, and the amateur 
theatrical talent found here fully equals some of the alleged profession- 
al talents now starring. 

„ .^ The men will find here a variety of clubs. The Alta 

Salt 

Lake City Club, which occupies the entire upper floor of the Dooly 
for the Block, and which is the swell club of the city, is one 
Club Man. of those resorts, the like of which the unsophisticated 




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stranger is much surprised to find out in the midst of what he 
thought would be desert wilds. In its twelve years of existence the Alta 
has grown wonderfully, and now numbers on the roster of its members 
the most prominent and the wealthiest men of Utah, while some of the 
Nition's celebrities have been entertained within its most hospitable 
walls. The University Club is another cozy affair, where men who 
have known the trials and vicissitudes of college life can while away 




Dooly Block. 
the dull hours of the day or evening. The Union Club is another com- 
munity of congenial spirits where time flies on Pegassus' wings. The 
Salt Lake Athletic Club has done much to foster sparring, bicyling 
and: kindred sports in Salt Lake City, while the Press Club is com- 
posed of the embryonic and otherwise journalists of the city. 

If the secret society man cannot find his own particuliar fraternity 
in Salt Lake City, he is a member of one yet unheard of, for they 
will find almost every society represented here, and will discover 



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that that same fraternal spirit and hospitable kinship ob- 
tains here as elsewhere. The order of Sons of St. George, 
has one Lodge; the Knights of Pythias has four; the A. O. 
F. of A., A. A. O. N. M., and R. A. M., each have one 
lodge, the Temple of Honor and Temperance has two ; the 

Knights Templar has one lodge, a chapter, commandery and shrine; 

A. F. and A. M. 



Salt Lake 
City for 
the Secret 
Society 
Man. 



has three; P. O. 
D. of A. has one; 
I. O. O. F. has 
two; A. O. U W. 
has two; A P. A. 
has two; the Dan- 
ish Brotherhood 
has one; and the 
Order of Ameri- 
can Firemen has 
one. These are 
only the most im 
portant, and it can 
be thus easily seen 
that the fraternal- Residence of Dr. Hector Griswold. 

ly inclined will not want for "brothers" in Salt Lake City 

Salt Lake City's two superb street car systems must not be over- 
looked, and the dame with a passion for bargains, will find a multi- 
tude of bargain counters and street cars to bear her to and from 
any part of the city. 

The newspapers of Salt Lake City are as good as any 

in the West. The Tribune, one of the oldest dailies, is a 

City News- 
brave, fearless, outspoken sheet. Judge C. C. Goodwin is 

papers. 




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the editorial writer, and ranks among some of the very ablest journal- 

" ists of the coun- 



#*• 



'^^J' 



try. He is a man 
of fine sense; of 
many parts; ex- 
traordinary geni- 
us; versatile tal- 
ent and broad cul- 
ture; he is also a 
courteous gentle- 
man, and it may 
be fairly said of 
him that he has 
honestly won his 
fame. The echoes 
of his Comstock 
Club have not 
ceased reverberat- 
ing through the 
Halls of Glory. 
Hon. C. C. Goodwin. There is hardly a 

man, woman or child that does not know and will not say a kind 
The word for the genial editor of the Tribmie. P. H. Lannan, 

Salt Lake a man whose managerial ability has never been questioned, 
Tribune, jg jtg manager, and under his control the Tribune has 
grown to be a power in the moulding of the opinions of the people of 
the intermountain country. Mr. William Iglehart, the City Editor, is a 
newspaper man "f metropolitan experience, fine news instinct and 
immense working capacity. He came to the Tribune from the 
Chicago Record. 




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The Herald is another 
daily whose appearance is a 
credit to Salt Lake, and 
whose Democratic doctrine 
has pleased beyond measure 
the many latter-day followers 
of Jefferson. CW. Penrose, 
its editorial writer, is a born 
journalist; an able writer; a 
thorough logician, and one 
whose arguments are always 
able, well expressed and 
timely. The Herald is looked 
upon as a power in Demo- 
cratic circles, and its news- 
gathering facilities are unsur- 
passed. Richard W. Young, 
its manager, is thoroughly 
capable, and one who has 
proven by his success with 
the Herald his ability to manage a metropoHtan journal Mr. Young, 
a thorough gentleman, courteous to all, a well-bred man and an excel- 
lent exponent of the New West, is to be congratulated upon his suc- 
cess. Mr. Edward G Ivins, the city editor, is a thorough disciplin- 
arian, a well-taught newspaperman, and certainly capable of fiUing the 
position he occupies. 

The Deserei Evening News has already been mentioned. It is 
the oldest journal west of the Rockies. John Q. Cannon is its editorial 
writer, and is a man of broad culture. The News is therefore a care- 
fully edited afternoon paper. 




The Tribune Building. 



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^^•• 



The Evening Star is another afternoon paper which has been re- 
cently launched upon the waves of Salt Lake journalism. It is an 
exponent of the "free silver" doctrine, and promises in time to become 
an authority on that question. 

The Argus is a weekly, and one of the best west of the Missouri 
River. James Bloor, its editor and proprietor, is a newspaper man 
of large experi- 
ence. He is a 
gentleman whose 
acquaintance and 
friendship one ap- 
preciates, and 
through his in- 
nate ability he has 
made the Argus 
a wonderful suc- 
cess He deserves 
it, for he has 
worked hard to 
that end, and 
throughout all 
campaigns the 
Argus is consid- 
ered an authority The Herald Building. 
upon the political outlook. Its mining quotations each week are re- 
liable and culled from the best sources of information, while its society 
news is eagerly read by every one whom it interests. Mr Bloor 
Sijares neither time, expense nor pains to make the Argus indispen- 
sable to the Salt Lake household, and it is due to his infinite care that 
he has succeeded. 




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From a Copyrighted Photo by Sainsbury & Johnson. 

Surely, with all these advantages, one cannot find a fairer place to 
dwell; surely in all the country there is not a place more pleasant 
The world over one may seek and not find a place so fair as this. 
Salt Lake, with her cloak of perpetual sunshine; her refreshing sea 



A Faint 
Descrip= 
tion. 



67 

breezes, hid here in the heart of the rock-ribbed hills; her glorious sun- 
sets, where the cerulean, the sapphire and the crimson mingle, coloring 
the whole western horizon with a pigment that only the angels know; 
her purple Wasatch and blue- crowned Oquirrhs; her soft, green verdure 
spangled with the dandelions' gold; her poplar trees which seem to 
whisper all day long secrets to the summer breezes that so 
coolly, sweetly blow. Ah, far and long one may search 
and not find a home so beautiful as one of these humble 
adobes that seems to crouch from the rude gaze of the alien 
passerby, and shroud itself with the odor of the lilacs and roses whose 

bushes nestle so 
lovingly under 
its eaves. Sure- 
ly if you are 
crossing the 
range on your 
way from the 
treasure boxes of 
Colorado to the 
golden shores 
of the Sun- 
set Land, you 
will stop here 




From a copyrighted photo by Sainsbury & Johnson. 

Jos. F. Smith. Wilford Woodruff. Geo. Q. Cannon. 

First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of 
Latter-day Saints. 



one little while if only to gaze upon the dusty, misty pictures framed 
by the memories of the past, which seem to gaze so fondly down the 
vista of the years from their niche in the Hall of the Days that are 
Gone. 




Salt Lake for the Investor. 



Some 
Facts. 



'|ip:;"^|| HE center of a vast empire, cut off from 
the rest of the world by great mountain 
ranges, is Salt Lake, the queen city of the 
inter-mountain region, and the logical com- 
mercial center of a treasure trove nearly 
fifteen hundred miles square. Between 
Denver and Sacramento there is not a larger 
city than this, and in all the western country it would be 
hard to imagine a more favorable spot to invest spare 




capital. It is 
situated natural- 
ly so that it must 
in time become 
the capital, the 
center of indus- 
try and the very 
hub of an em- 
pire covering 
more territory 
than all of the 
Middle Atlan- 
tic States com- 
bined, and it is 
the man that is 
smart enough to 




Residknce of Robert Harkness. 



69 

get in on the ground floor who will profit most by his business fore- 
sight. Capital is needed here, sorely needed, and it altogether de- 
pends upon the amount invested as to how great the returns will be. 
For fifty years Salt Lake has been the business center of all this vast 
region lying between the serrated Rockies and the snow-capped 
Sierras. Here many great enterprises have been and are being 
launched. It is the distributing point for all of this vast domain. 

It is an old saying that possession is nine points of the law, and 
surely since Salt Lake has in her possession this immense wealth and 
these grand opportunities, it is fair to presume she will keep them. 
Already her prosperity is great, and already the luminous star of the 
empire points to a grander future, to grander realizations, to the bright 
and beautiful day that must dawn. She has every advantage to make 
her great — stable banks, large business institutions, raw materials 
and manufactures of every kind, immense water-power near by and 
plenty of room to grow. That she will grow there is not the slightest 
doubt, and she can base her growth upon something more substantial 
than her peerless moonligh evenings her glorious sunsets and her 
magnificent climate. She can ba^e it on agriculture, on her mines, on 
her manufactures and on the vast treasure beds of resources of every 
description. 

Already there are in successful operation in and near Salt Lake 
City manufactories producing boots and shoes, knit goods and 
overalls, woolens, leather, confections, iron and wire fence.«5, 
mattresses, crackers and cakes, show cases, paints and oils, bricks, 
cigars, vinegar, wines and liquors, soaps, salt, chemicals, glass, lum- 
ber, books, brewed goods, and near Salt Lake smelters, among the lar- 
gest in the country; all of which give employment to many thousand 
operatives, and millions of dollars, the result of which is a production 
of over ten millions of dollars of merchantable goods annually, which 



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goes to show the remarkable fact that Salt LaKe City employs more 
labor and capital and produces greater results than all of Wyoming, 
Some Idaho, Montana and Arizona combined. 

Facts for Notwithstanding all these facts money is yet needed, 

the Manu-^ij^j jj- jg only a question of time and capital when Salt 
tacturer. L^i^g ^ju ^e one of the mciropoli of the country. 
Thousands of dollars can be invested here in any one of the mentioned 
lines to the greatest advantage of the investor, and only a few may be 
mentioned. Silica is found here in the greatest abundance, as is also 
feldspar, soda and other ingredients necessary to the successful manu- 
facture of glass. Some of the best authorities in the country have 

expressed the opinion that Salt Lake 
City is the logical center for the manu- 
facture of glass in America. 

Utah is one of the greatest wool- 
producing sections in the country. 
There is a market for woolen clothes 
and knit goods. There is room for a 
large paper factory, providing the best 
kind of paper is manufactured and 
sold sufficiently cheap to discount 
freight rates from the East. Utah is a 
__ great grain section. "Bread is the 

staff of life." Another flour mill might be located or capital in- 
vested in improving the three already here. Thousands of tons of 
sulphate of soda are produced naturally on the shores of the Great 
Salt Lake It costs nothing but the gathering, and thus there is a 
great opportunity for the manufacture of chemicals; but the institu- 
tions engaged in that branch are greatly in need of more capital. More 
capital can be easily used in the manufacture of salt; enough of which 




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is held in solution by 
waters of Great Salt Lake 
to supply the world 
lor untold ages to come. 
The cost of production is 
about one dollar per ton 
on the ground. There are 
six billion tons held in 
solution by the waters of 
the Great Salt Lake. Re- 
fined salt is made in large 
quantities, ninety - nine 
and one-tenth per cent, 
pure. It is much superior 
to the Eastern salt, and 
large quantities are being 
shipped to the large pack- 
ing houses of Omaha and 

Kansas City every year. 
Hooper Block. ^ rolling mill and gen- 

eral iron manufactory is sadly needed. All over Utah iron is 
found in abundance, while the coal fields contain enough fuel to change 
the climate of Alaska. 

Such an institution could pave the way and indeed prove parent 
to wire, stove, nail, bolt, bar-iron, steel and locomotive works. Heavy 
machinery for the mines might also be manufactured and, aside from 
employing thousands of workmen, would prove an investment yielding 
unestimated dividends. Someone might profitably invest his spare 
capital in the founding of farina and potato starch works. Utah pro- 
duces annually seventy million pounds of potatoes. These are shipped 




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all over the East and West, and made into starch, from whence the 
finished product is shipped back to Salt Lake and Utah There is no 
reason why this should be so; it certainly is not economy. There is a 
Some g:olden opportunity for some large terra cotta, pottery, 

Facts plaster of Paris and porcelain manufactory. Close to Sal^ 

for the Lake there are found all kinds of pottery clays, fire-clay 

Capitalist, gj^jj ^Qpg upon tons of pure gypsum and kaolin. The silk 
ndustry might be profitably pursued, and the possibilities for gain in 
this especial branch offers many inducements to capital. There is at 
present a small establishment of this kind, and, but for the fact that 
the necessary capital is lacking to put in improved machinery, the 
proprietor would be making money hand over fist. The climate of 
Utah is such that mulberry trees grow most luxuriantly, and the 
cocoons thrive as well. It is merely a question of time before Salt 
Lake City will produce much silk. Berries are ripening here when 
the blossoms have not dropped from the vines in Delaware and New 
Jersey. There is an excellent chance for someone who understands 
the business to establish a cannery here Tons upon tons of dried 
fruits are shipped to California and New England every year. The 
fruit is dried in the good old God-help- me style, and a good evaporat- 
ing establishment would do a good business. The manufacture of 
beet sugar would yield over a million dollars per year. Sorghum 
manufactories, slaughtering houses, glue and candle works, cream- 
eries, stone-cutting and polishing establishments, an institution for the 
working of immense quarries of lithographic stone, and hundreds of 
other industries might be located here with great benefit. There is in 
Utah every conceivable sort of material for the manufacture of every 
conceivable sort of a thing. 

Of course there are other ways to invest capital than in manufac- 
tories or silk plants. One may wish to invest in town lots. To such 



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Some ^- E. Hubbard, probably the most prominent real estate 

Facts dealer in Salt Lake City. is indeed most important. Mr. Hub- 

About Real bard controls East Waterloo, Oakley and the land owned 
Estate. by the g^ar River Canal Company in Box Elder County. 

East Waterloo is a most desirable residence section. Many per- 
sons have seen its beauty, V ^^ ' 
and during the last three ' ^-^i- ' ^ 
years residences to the 
value of $350,000 have 
been erected in that 
subdivision. Oakley is 
another beautiful section 
It is located on Oakley 
Avenue, which will, in time, become one of the very finest drives in 
or near the city. It is already a noble thoroughfare — one hundred 
feet wide and one mile long Building sites fronting on it are now sell- 
ing for from three hundred to five hundred dollars. These lots are 
each fifty to one hundred feet wide and one hundred and fifty feet 
deep. With the return of prosperity these lots have increased in 
value, and will undoubtedly double their present selling price within 
the next two years. It is even now rapidly filling up with fine resi- 
dences, and is without a doubt the choicest, close-in-subdivision in or 
near the city. A few figures may prove this The property was placed 
on t ,e market April 17, and before the 15th of July two hundred and 
sixty-six lots had been sold. The company has made arrangements 
so that loans of any amount will be furnished parties wishing to build. 
A very few modern residences yet remain upon the market; the ma- 
jority of these are also controlled by Mr. Hubbard. 

To those who do not wish to settle in the city the land owned by 
the Bear River Canal Company offers exceptional inducements. He 




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also has ten thousand acres of Homestead land, which can be taken up 
under the Desert and Homestead Acts. Half of the land so taken 
can be exchanged for water for the other half The entire tract is 
under irrigation and ready for settlement. This land is being taken 
up very rapidly, and the man who wants to make a fortune had better 
"get a move on" himself and, taking Horace Greeley's advice, mak- 
ing Salt Lake City and Utah his objective points. 

Salt Lake has one of the finest postofifices in the entire country, 
and a resume of its business for the last 
three months may prove interesting 
During that time $51,317.34 worth of 
stamps and stamped supplies were 
sold The Registry Department re- '*^^~.»'':^^^ 
ceived for registration three thousand 
six hundred and sixty-eight pieces, and thirty one thousand five hun- 
dred and seven pieces were handled in transit, nine thousand and 
seventy-nine pieces of the same matter being received for local de- 
livery. During the same period the Mailing Department handled one 
million and fifty thousand seven hundred and sixty- five pounds Dur- 
ing the month of June of 1895 business at the office showed 

^""^ a remarkable increase. June is usually one of the dull 

Postoffice , , • , , r , 11 1 

months, but m 1895 the record for that month shows that 

Facts. 

$8, 178.64 in stamps and stamped supplies were sold. This 

was an increase over any single month's business for the three previous 
years. The xMoney Order business for the same time shows that ten thou- 
sand nine hundred and thirty -two money orders were issued, having 
an aggregate value of$84,558.30 The fees aggregated $750 86, while 
the department paid seventeen thousand and forty-eight money orders 
with an aggregate value of $173,216.69, all of which shows an average 
of one hundred and eighty-seven transactions per day. The office 



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force consists of twenty-two regular carriers, five substitute carriers, 
seventeen clerks and one special messenger 

C. R. Barratt is the present 
postmaster of Salt Lake City. 
He entered upon his duties May 
I, 1895, having been appointed 
March 30th of this year. Mr. 
Barratt was postmaster for three 
years during the latter part of 
President Cleveland's first term, 
and during what is remembered 
as the boom period of Salt Lake. 
His second appointment, being in 
conflict with what has been con- 
sidered an inflexible rule with the 
Administration, was regarded by 
his friends as a marked endorse- 
C. R. Barratt. ment of his former management of 

*^he office at a very trying time, resulting from the city's sudden 
and almost phenomenal growth, 

Mr. Barratt is a native of Cecil County, Maryland, though the 
family was originally Delawarean, having descended from three 
C. R. Bar= brothers, who, in the seventeenth century, settled in Kent 
ratt, Post= County, where stands today, near Frederica, a quaint old 
master. Church, known throughout Delaware, Eastern Maryland 
and Virginia, as Barratt' s Chapel. It was built by the family for the 
use of the neighborhood. A model of the old structure with photo- 
graphs and sketches of its surroundings, and its printed history at- 
tached, was one of the features of the Delaware exhibit at the late 
World's Fair. Its imported material, its brick floor, antique pews and 




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pulpit make it one of the curiosities of the peninsula. The centen- 
nial of its completion was commemorated by the people of the section, 
together with the remnants of the family, in 1873. The family names 
chiselled on the weather-beaten tombstones in ihe churchyard greatly 
outnumbered those upon the program of the celebration. 




CuLMER Block 
Mr. Barratt came to Utah from California more than thirty years 

ago. He is, with perhaps one exception, the longest continuous resi- 
dent Gentile in Utah and, though not a Methusela, he admits having 
crossed the continent some thirty-five times. The only trip, however, 
about which he cares to talk is the first — atrip ante- dating all railroads 
west of the Missouri River — during which he rode the same horse from 
the Mississippi to the very sands of the Pacific Ocean, and back to 
Salt Lake. The memory of the other trips, he admits, is somewhat 
tangled; but this particular one — as is the rule with first impressions — 
stands out clear cut and distinct, and apart from the interwoven recol- 
lections of all others. 



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Mr. Barratt very early in life numbered among his close business 

and social acquaintances men, the recalling of whose names sounds 

like imperfectly remembered dreams. But they are names ineradic- 

^. ^.^ ably woven into the woof and fibre of the great West, with 
The Old 

Pioneer ''"^ pioneers, its early struggles and its development. By 
Days. West is meant that vast region extending from the Mis- 

souri River — then called the frontier — to the Golden Gate, 
and from Mexico to the Hudson Bay. The country was then spoken 
of in a general way as "the plains" or "the Great American Desert. " 
Among these are the names of F. Aubrey, Isaac Hockady, Merritt 
Young, Tom Williams, Ben Holliday.Wm H. Russell, Alex. Majors, 
Judge Carreer, S. F. Mickols — names as well known then as 
household words are today, though well nigh passed from all memor- 
ies, save of the student of Western history, and of minds now reached 
that point where the past holds an equal balance with the present in 
personal interest and desire. The lecollection of associates of such a 
character is not easily effaced. They were indeed fitted for the re- 
quirements and the time — some of them and many of their associates 
daring and desperate fellows, indifferent where they slept, or when, or 
how, or if at all. Their vices were not little vices, and they were not 
without surpassing virtues. Among them were those who swore 
and gamed, and those who preached and prayed. 

Never again on this continent will there be the opportunities or 
the circumstances to develop such another group, nor indeed else- 
where, for the world over the inventions of man are fast driving out 
the faithful horse, the jingling spur, the trusted rifle and the deadly 
bowie-knife. We are living in another age, and the change has come 
about so quickly that men yet in middle life look back and wonder, 
and try to look ahead, and think and wonder yet the more as to what 
may be. 



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Rocky Mountain Bell Tele- 
phone Building. 



Another feature of Salt Lake 
City, and one that will no doubt 
interest the investor, is its magnificent 
telephone service This is the head 
quarters for the Rocky Mountain Bell 
Telephone Company, which company 
operates all the telephone exchanges 
and lines in Utah, Montana, Idaho 
and Wyoming. 

From the handsome fire-proof 
building on State Street emerge the 
wires from which the people of this 
beautiful city, and the whole of 
northern and central Utah, are 



of the 
Rocky 
Mountain 
Bell 



placed in close communion with one another. With exchanges 

at Logan, Ogden, Salt Lake City, Park City, Bingham and Provo, 

and long distance lines extending from Preston, Idaho, to Nephi and 

Service Tintic on the South, and Heber and Kamas on the East, 

and to Stockton and Grantsville on the West, and stations 

at all intermediate towns and villages, it is a veritable truth 

when it is said the whole of northern and central Utah can 

use this wonderful device for carrying on a conversation as 

Telephone satisfactorily as were the parties in the same room and face 
Company. ^^ ^^^^ 

The building itself is one of the finest in the country ; the switch- 
board and its devices the best; its officers and employees attentive and 
courteous, and its system perfect From the General Office in Salt 
Lake City are directed the telephone affairs in the other states; in 
Montana are exchanges in Helena, Butte, Anaconda, Deer Ledge, 
Bozeman, Great Falls and Missoula, and long distance lines connect- 



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Operating Room in the Rocky Mountain Bell 
Telephone Building. 



ing each of these, ex- 
tending from Great 
Falls on the northeast, 
and Livingston on the 
East, to Missoula and 
Bitter Root Valley on 
the West. In Idaho, 
the system in the Coeur 
d'Alene Mining District, 
with exchanges at 
Wardner and Wallace, 
and lines to Spokane Falls; the central Idaho system with exchanges 
at Boise, Caldwell, Nampa and Silver City, connecting Central Idaho 
by long distance lines The Wyoming system consists at present of 
exchanges in Cheyenne and Laramie, and a line connecting these two 
towns. All are under the general management of this company. 

Much more could be said about this company and its enterprise; 
but a trial of its service will satisfy all, that it is as near perfect as can 
be made today. 

The officers of the Company are — President, Geo. Y. Wallace ; 
Vice-President, Geo. M. Downey; Secretary, Harry C. Hill; Treasurer, 
C. W. Lyman, and General Superintendent, D S. Murray. 

Together with Salt Lake industries the Pleasant 

The ^ 

PI , Valley Coal Company, whose mines are located at Castle 

Valley Coal Gate and Scofield, may be mentioned. This company. 
Company, without a doubt, controls one of the largest industries of its 
kind in the inter- mountain region. The annual output is 
about four hundred thousand tons of coal, while the annual 
output ot coke made in the far-famed coke ovens of Castle Gate in 
crease these already enormous figures thirty thousand tons. In the 



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getting out of this enormous amount of fuel the company finds it neces- 
sary to employ six hundred men the year round. The coal bed ex- 
tends over an area of fifteen thousand acres, in the working of which 
six hundred thousand dollars is expended annually. The 
mines are worked by the latest and most approved methods, 
every precaution having been taken to secure the life and 
limb of its employees. Throughout the West the manage- 
ment is famed for its humane treatment of men employed by 
the company. The headquarters in Salt Lake is in 
charge of General Superintendent W G. Sharp and 
General Sales Agent E. L. Carpenter 








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Salt Lake City has one of the finest police forces in the country. 
There are at present fifty patrolmen, and the annual expense of oper- 
ating the Department exceeds $51,000. The detective branch has 
Some done and is still doine most excellent work. It is due to 

Police De= ^.j^^jj. ability and faithful attention to duty that the record 

for 1894 shows that out of lost and stolen property, valued 
Facts. 

at nearly $38,000, only $1,500 is unaccounted for This 

is a phenomenal record. During four months' residence in Salt Lake 
City I have had alms solicited from me but three times This speaks 
well for the patrolmen. They have ever been alert, faithful and atten- 
tive to duty, ever vigilant and careful of their trust, and under the ad- 



Chief ministration of Chief of Police Arthur Pratt the Depart- 

of Police ment has been brought to a higher plane of effeciency than 
Artiiur ever before. The Department is now strictly a non-partisan 

Pratt. one, and all the officials and employees hold their 

positions during good behavior. Arthur Pratt was born in Salt Lake 
City in 1853, and was educated in the common schools and local educa- 
tional institutions. In 1874 
he was appointed Deputy 
United States Marshal, in 
which capacity he served 
until 1890. He was then 
appointed Territorial Aud- 
itor by Governor A. L. 
Thomas, which position he 
resigned to accept his pre- 
sent one, upon the duties 
of which he entered Dec- 
ember 31st, 1894. Dur- 
ing his incumbency he has 
made an excellent record 
_ for himself, and it would 
Chief of Police, Arthur Pratt. seem from present indica- 

tions that Chief of Police Pratt will remain such during his lifetime. 
Chief Pratt has had an able coadjutor in the person of Captain 
Donovan. John J. Donovan was born April 13th, 1863. This 
number thirteen has played a peculiar part in Captain Donovan's 
life, for it was on April 13, 1890, that he was appointed a pa. 
trolman. November 13, of the same year he was promoted to a 
Sergeancy, and became Captain April 13, 1892, In all up to the date 
of his becoming captain he had been in Salt Lake City thirteen years. 




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The Fire Department is an ex- 
cellent one. It is composed of 
twenty- six men with all necessary 
apparatus. The fire alarm tele- 
graph system has been improved 
upon from time to time, so that 
now it is nearly perfect. A very 
valuable and mayhap unique ad- 
junct to this branch of the depart- 
ment is the direct connection ot 
the various stations with the cen 
tral office of the Rocky Mountain 
Bell Telephone Company This 
is so arranged that the operator at 
the telephone building can sound Captain of Police John J. Donovan. 
an alarm, release the horses, turn on the electric light, strike the 
Some Fire gong in the department houses, and communicate the 
Depart- exact locality of the fire simultaneously. 
"lent Within the city limits there are located nearly nine 

hundred fire hydrants with an average pressure of ninety- 
six pounds. During the summer the larger business blocks of the 
city are inspected with a view to obtaining "the location and name of 
building, inside and outside description and use, what fire protection, 
if any, on the outside, entrances and exits, contents, fire-escapes and 
stand-pipes; if accessible at rear for apparatus, how; location of nearest 
front and rear hydrants; does area way extend under sidewalks, if so 
is sidewalk safe for aerial trucks; is building connected with adjoining 
buildings; if fire ordinances are being violated " 

With such a thorough method of attending to the requirements of 
a well regulated fire department it cannot be considered extraordinary 



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that out of one hundred and twenty alarms received last year the total 
loss over insurance paid was only $6,360. Of this loss $3, 500 was on 
property located outside of the city limits. 

James Devine is Chief of the fire department Before coming to 
Utah he passed most of his life on a farm in New Jersey. Tiring of 
the agricultural routine he apprentjced himself to a carpenter, studying 

the science of building construc- 
tion in the meanwhile. For ten 
years prior to his taking charge of 
the department he, either as con- 
tractor or superintendent of build- 
ing construction, had a number of 
men under his control. The value 
of this experience has proven a 
valuable equipment in the hand- 
ling of fires, particularly where 
dangerous or faulty construction 
has been an element encountered. 
Coming to Salt Lake City about 
six years ago he entered the politi- 
cal arena and was among the first 
James Devink, Chief of Fire De- to organize the Republican Party 

in Utah Superintendent of fire 
alarm, Chas. T. Vail, is largely responsible for the efficiency of the 
fire alarm system. This position is one of the most responsible con- 
nected with the department, and the accuracy and promptness with 
which box alarms are received reflect great credit upon his ability as 
an electrician. He is an efficient officer, a careful and capable 




Captain W. G. Workman is also a valuable member of the fire 




Edward McCarthy, Lieutenant of Charlks T. Vail, Supt. Fire Alarm 
Chemical Engine. Telegraph. 




John Chalmers, Secy, and Operator. 



Capt. W. G. Workman. 



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department. By strict attention to duty, combined with his efficiency, 
he has worked himself up to the responsible position he now holds. 

John Chalmers is secretary and operator of the Department. 
Aside from being: a thorough gentlemen Mr. Chalmers is a capable 
and efficient officer. The position he holds is one of much responsi- 
bility, and it is only due to him to say that he fills it well. 

Edward McCarthy occupies the important position of Lieutenant 
of Chemical Engine — a position for which he is well qualified by reason 
of his long and practical experience as a builder. Whenever the 
flames are roaring and the midnight sky is reddened by the fierce con- 
flagration's blaze, Lieutenant M:C.--rthy will be found where the heat 
is greatest. He is a fire fighter tb^rough and through, and among his 
associates his nickname is "Intrepid McCarthy." 




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Salt Lake as a Health and 
Pleasure Resort. 



"WE BELIEV/E IT A DWTY TO LIV/c PAST SEV/ENTY." 










KER after health seeks pleasure, 

and the seeker of pleasure seeks 

health, therefore health and pleasure 

are surely synonymous. Pleasure, in 

whatsoever form, so long as it is pleasure, is 

conducive to health, and surely the most 

& pleasant of all pleasant things is health. 

It may be that these are the reasons why 
Salt Lake is such a pleasant place. It is the city 
of rosy cheeks, of briUiant eyes, and throughout 
the world is far-famed for its pleasant featured 
womanly women and its strong and healthy manly 
len. It is a grand old place, is Salt Lake, with its 
mountain sea breezes — mountain sea breezes is the correct term 
-for the mountain zephyrs that so refreshingly blow bear upon 
their wings granules of salt from the bosom 'of the Great Salt Lake. 



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Never does old Boreas smite Salt Lake in his anger and fury, for the 
God of Day looking so peacefully down from his throne up there 
above the great blue vault makes every day a sunshiny one, and in all 
the year Salt Lake basks in the effulgence of his smile two hundred 
and eighty-seven days. Although the midsummer days may be 
warm, the nights are ever cool and refreshing, for Salt Lake City lies 
four thousand three feet above the level of the sea. Think of that, you 
poor, weak invalids! Think of nine Washington monuments, the 
highest permanent structure in the world, piled one upon another, and 
then think of living up there on the very top of the topmost one! Can 
you blame the children here for believing in fairies and gnomes and 
elfs? Can you blame them if their fancy pictures every white, fleecy 
cloud an angel boat sailing on the bosom of the great blue sea? Ah, 
there is no such life anywhere as life up here in the translucent ether 
among the opalescent clouds! 

And now added to all these advantages think of the bubbling 
springs of hot water, laden with curative elements, and you will under- 
stand that America possesses a Carlsbad and a Weisbaden 
of her own. In the very center of the city, only a block 

and a half from the far-famed Knutsford Hotel, is located 
tarium, 

the Sanitarium. No one ever thinks of calling it other than 
America's 

^ . L J "The Sanitarium," for it is such a mammoth estabHsh- 
Carlsbad. 

ment — such a wonderful institution — that when it has once 
been seen it becomes fi-iced in the mind as standing alone 
and above everything else of the kind. Into the pools of this mam- 
moth resort flow daily five hundred thousand gallons of the water of 
one of the most wonderful hot springs in America, surpassing in medi- 
cinal properties any curative waters of the world. Speaking of its 
medicinal virtues the renowned Dr. Henry O. Marcy, of Boston, 
says : 



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"I like your institution very much. You will do much to aid your city, and 
greatly benefit suffering humanity. I have visited most of the celebrated springs 
of Europe and America; few equal and none surpass your own." 

It cost $150,000 to build and it is a most perfect establishment, for 
every dollar was expended most judiciously. In this institution there 
are contained a swimming pool (for men only,) fifty six by seventy- 
five feet, and from three to seven feet deep; a swimming pool fifty-six 
by sixty-five feet for both men and women; twelve private 

pools of ample proportions; twenty-six private bath-rooms 
It Cost 

with the best porcelain tubs, and a well appointed room for 
$150,000 ^^ 

to Build steam baths. Surrounding the large pools are two hun- 
Thls Insti-di'^d commodious dressing rooms, and adjacent to 
tution. the pools are billiard parlors, ladies' parlors and retiring 
apartments, reading and smoking rooms. 

The efficacy of these waters has been demonstrated in cases of 
rheumatism, neuralgia, diabetes, Bright' s disease, gravel, lead pois- 
oning, catarrh, dysentery, gout, indigestion, nervous prostration and 
incipient lung troubles. These waters can also be used internally, and 
are particularly beneficial in all diseases based on uric acid diathesis. 
The following is the analysis as submitted: 

Salt Lake City, Utah, August 31, 1893. 
The Salt Lake Hot Springs Sanitarium Co.: 

The water you submitted to me from Salt Lake Hot Springs 
Sanitarium for analyzing contains as follows: 

Gas, Carbonic Acid 1.03 vol. 

Solids in one gallon: 

Chloride of Sodium 245.357 grains 

" " Potassium i-75o " 

'■ '■ Calcium 11.340 " 

" " Magnesium 25.550 " 

Sulphate " Sodium 11.025 " 

" " Potassium trace 

" " Calcium 35.140 " 

" " Magnesium 17. 374 " 



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Carbonate of Sodium 8-77i grains. 

" " Potassium 0.700 

" " Calcium 6.475 

" " Iron 0.350 

Silica 1.260 

Alumina 0.140 

Bromine traces 



Total 365.232 grains. 

It is a thermal spring, which must be classified among the 
best known in the United States on account of the medicinal pro- 
perties therein. Cures can be effected by drinking it and bath- 
ing in k. Respectfully Yours, H. Hirsching, Chemist. 

Certain it is that all these conditions have their own especial value, 
and certain it is that, as every detail of some complicated machinery 
makes the perfect whole, so it is that every detail of climate and sun- 
shine, of warm springs and atmosphere, go toward making Salt Lake 

the healthiest city in all this wide domain. The health re- 
What the 

Health ports of 1894, figured on a basis of seventy thousand in- 
Reports habitants, showed that the death rate was but eight per 
Show. cent, while the figured average of other cities on the same 
basis is fifteen per cent. The average summer temperature here is 
but seventy-two degrees, and an average winter temperature of thirty- 
two degrees, as shown by observation at the Signal Service Bureau ex- 
tending over twenty years. Yes, this is the healthy city; this must be 
the Mecca of health seekers; it must in time become the resort of the 
sick and wounded. 

It must become this for manifold reasons. For within an hour 
one can get away from the summer heat, and, in the canyons that lie 
all about the city, watch time as it flies. Fishing is abundant, and in 
the mountains all sorts of game may be found. The nimrod will find 
here his paradise, for with dog and gun and fishing rod he may pass 
whole weeks by himself, in fact, the pleasure seeker of all kinds, wheth- 
er nimrod or dilettante. Th^re are parks galore, and Fort Douglas 



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may be seen basking on the side of a mountain not three miles away. 
The street cars run to its very gates. All around the city are the old 
Mormon points of interest, the great Temple that cost four million 
dollars, and which is built something after the Temple of Solomon, 
for ox-carts brought the first stones from the quarries; the great Tab 
ernacle — a great turtle-shaped building — whose acoustic properties are 
so fine that the dropping of a pin at one end may be plainly heard at 
the other; the quaint old adobes, every one of which has a history of 
What the its own; the Gardo house, otherwise known as Amelia's 
Tourist Palace, which was built by Brigham Young for his favorite 
Can See. ^j^^ j^^^ occupied by Col. Isaac Trumbo; the Lion and 
Beehive houses, the old church offices and the one time residence of 
Brigham Young's wives; the little school house, which was built es- 
pecially for his sixty-three children, and Brigham Young's grave sit- 
uated on the brow of the hill just above the old school house; the 
old Tithing yard and offices where members of the Church of Jesus 
Christ of Latter-day Saints pay ten per cent, of their income to sup- 
port their chosen church, and the many other old landmarks that 
every tourist may see. They all have their histories, and there is just 
a tinge of sadness in contemplating their oftimes faded glory. 

Salt Lake has three theatres and all of the best talent and attrac- 
tions on the roid stop here when on their way to the Coast. 

Located on the shores of Great Salt Lake is another sight which 

every tourist must see. The Pavilion at Saltair is the largest in the 

wi^rld, and cost over $298,000 to build. It was a gigantic 

Saltair undertaking; it is a gigantic affair. It is the resort of 

' all Salt Lake people, and Nephi W. Clayton, its manager, 

a Qigantic , ,. ^ , , , , • , 

deserves the greatest credit lor the success he has achieved. 
Affair. 

It is a beautiful place, built there on the shores of Great 

Salt Lake, whose booming waves ever create the sweetest 



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music in their grand sonorous base. I shall every remember it. 
Although I may roam far from Salt Lake; though I may climb over 
the Eagle Pass to the land of the Moniezumas and bask in 
the sunshine of Old Mexico; though I may take my siesta under the 
veranda of some friendly hacieyida; T though I may stroll on the 
Boulevard des Italiens, under the flickering gas lights of Paris; though 
Hemories ^ iTi^y mingle with some gay throng on St. James' Square; 
of 5altair though I may speed over the icy plains of Russia, sail ice- 
Will Ever boats with the gay St. Petersburg's crowd, or bask in the 
Linger. s'mshine on the Neapolitan Bay, — the memory of Saltair 
will ever linger and remain to fancy dear. Never shall I forget the gay 
throngs I have seen under its vari-colored lights, never shall I forget 
the shadows that softly come and go; never shall I forget the breezes 
to which the sea-gulls whisper secrets; never shall I forget the sighing 
of the waves. Oh, how mournful is their song, sobbing always on the 
beach for their friends — the billows of the Pacific — from which they were 
separated centuries ago! All night long they are mournfully weeping; 
The Song ^'^ ^^J ^O"?^ they are faintly sobbing, and the music that 
tlie Waves they make is so mournful, sweet, and sad and low! Old 
Are Sol seems to sympathize, for every evening as he sinks to 

Always j-^gj- j^^ gives them one last sweet, one glorious smile. He 
ing ng. ^^y gjj^jjg upon other places, for Old Sol is a fickle god; 
but of all his sweethearts Salt Lake is most favored, and tlie angels 
paint such pictures for sobbing sea-waves to view. Ah, how nimbly 
do they paint when the shadows of the Wasatch and Oquirrhs are 
growing longer! They have beautiful paints, have the angels, and 
nimble fingers, and a marvelous brush. The sapphire is deeper here 
than it is other where; the golden, fleece-like clouds are more golden; 
the crimson is a brighter crimson, and the purple a deeper tint; 
the blue is a deeper blue, and the fleece-like clouds more fleecy and 



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gauzy. Think you that I shall forget the last sweet, sad sunset; think 
you that the pleasure halls of any foreign land can ever take away the 
memory of the golden and the purple, — of the opalescent sky? Did 
I not see the angels paint with their nimble fingers a picture for the 
gods, and did I not see them depart on their fleece-like cloud boat, 
and sail ofi" and away on the purple waves of the sea that were washing 
the crowns of the Wasatch? 

T'was evening — The sun in his glory 

Had sunk to his rest for the night. 
On the ruffled waves of our Inland Sea 

There quivered a path of light. 

Not dreaming, but gazing intently, 

I saw an angel throng 
Troop down the golden pathway 

With laughter and jest and song. 

They had finished their work for the evening, 

The canvas was painted and done. 
So they sail'd away on the Sapphire Sea, 

Away to the Land of the Sun. 



A Sunset 
on Great 
Salt Lake. 



All over the West the picture 
Of gorgeous hue and tone 

Hung down in its crimson glory 
For the angels' work was done. 

But the sad sea waves were sighing 
As the purple shadows crept 

Closer and closer about us; 

'Twas night, and the fairies slept. 

But the waves were wailing softly 
As I left them there that night, 

To the moon that gazed so sadly 
Down her hall of silver light. 




Salt Lake Commercially. 




ND now as in life the ideal and romantic must give way to 
the real and practical. Commercially, Salt Lake must 
be considered, not by her peerless moonlight 
evenings, her glorious sunsets or Italian sky; but by 
that cold, hard calculating medium of dollars and 
cents. The romancer and idealist must give way 
to the statistician. She will lose nothing by the transition, however, for 
her glory in dollars and cents is as great as any one of her other 
Intro- glories of which she is so proud, and for which she is so far 

ductory. famed. Her tall office buildings, stable banks, grocery and 
dry-goods establishments, and her complete cycle of those industries 




that always have and shall ever lend to her name fame and glory in 
the commercial world, are found under her tall poplar trees, galore. 
Salt Lake is now and shall ever be the Queen City of the Mountains. 
She is approaching the zenith of her prosperity, and when her star 



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shall have arisen to the ascendency, it will remain there for a while at 
least. "Westward the star of the empire wends its way," and it will 
be but a short time before Salt Lake will bask in the glorious efful- 
gence of that particular star. It is coming; it is almost here. Speed 
the day. * * * 

Salt Lake is fortunate in possessing a real, live Chamber of Com- 
merce. It was organized April, 1887. Its object is the promotion 
and development of Salt Lake City. It has labored hard towards 
that, and from the little handful of Gentile organizers it has grown to 
be a mighty institution of nearly two thousand members. In times 
past it has been presided 
over by W. S. McCor- 
nick,H. W. Lawrence and 
Caleb West, now Gover- 
nor of the Territory. It 
has persistently presented 
to seekers after western 
knowledge by way of ob 
ject lessons, pictures and 
printed matter, Utah's 
wonderful resources, and 
Salt Lake's marvelous de 
velopment. It organized 
Utah's exhibit at the Mid 
winter Fair, and did much 
to make a success of 
Utah's exhibit at the Col- 
umbian Exposition. Not 
many years ago the entire 
land was discussing Utah's Chamber of Commerce. 




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Palace Exposition Car. The Chamber of Commerce inaugurated this 
innovation, which has been copied more or less and frequently since. 
This car with a staff of able talkers, and volumes of printed matter, did 

The much to attract attention to this Kingdom of the Gods, and 

Salt Lake this City of the Saints. 

Chamber of 'Yhe Chamber is presided over at present by James H. 

Commerce. g^t^Q^ ^^^ jg ^Iso President of the Bank of Salt Lake. 
Mr. Bacon was born August 12, 1856, in McDonough County, Illinois. 
In 1873 he entered college, and later took the course and graduated 
from the Eastman Business College atiPoughkeepsie, New York. 
Upon his graduation he commenced the study of law. and while 
yet a student was elected City Attorney of Macomb, Illinois. 
He was admitted to the IlUnois 
bar in 1879, and continued in suc- 
cessful practice until 1887 Fail- 
ing health compelled him to re- 
linquish his profession, and while 
in search of a more congenial 
climate he visited Salt Lake in 
January of 1888. Charmed with 
the magnificent climate and 
wondrous resources of this city 
and section, he decided to locate 
here, and in February of that same 
year formally established the Bank 
of Salt Lake. In 1893 he organ 
ized the Salt Lake Hot Springs 
Sanitarium Company, of which he James H. Bacon. 

is the principal owner. February, 1895, he was elected President of 
the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bacon is a successful business man, 




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and during the time he has been here, has loaned for private individ- 
uals and corporations over two million dollars, and has brought into 
Utah for investments and loans over five million more. 

Judge Edward F. Colborn, 
the Secretary of the Chamber 
of Commerce, was born in the 
state of Ohio, and is a graduate 
of the University of Michigan. 
He has been admitted to the bar 
in the states of Michigan, Kansas, 
Colorado and Utah. He was the 
Public Prosecutor of Dodge City, 
Kansas, for four years, when that 
town wore the crown and belt for 
wickedness and crime. He prac- 
ticed law for seven years in the 
silver camps of Colorado, and at 
the age of twenty-seven was elected 
to the bench in that state So 




Edward F. Colburn. 



satisfactorily did he fill the position that he was re elected; but owing 
to poor health resigned and removed to Salt Lake City, where he now 
resides His information about Utah extends over the entire range of 
her marvelous resources. His pen has been active, and most of the 
interest in this great domain and its wonderful capital city is due to 
its work. Judge Colburn is a gentleman in every sense of the word — 
a man of great ability, wonderful resources, keen perception and im- 
partial judgment. He is certainly the man for the place he fills so 
well. * "*" * 

William S. McCornick, founder of the banking house of McCor- 
nick & Company, was born in the Province of Ontario, where he lived 



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on a farm until he became of age. 
Leaving home he went direct to 
California, stopping there two 
years, and living a rancher's Hfe. 
He then removed to the state of 
Nevada where he resided in vari 
ous places, the most prominent of 
which were Virginia City, Austin, 
Hamilton and Belmont. While in 
Nevada he was engaged in mining 
and lumbering, principally the 
latter, until 1873. when he remov- 
ed to Utah, and settled in Salt 
Lake City. He immediately en- 
gaged in the banking business, 
and this business founded so long 
ago has steadily grown in favor, 
and today no institution in the Rocky Mountain region enjoys better 
credit. The magnificent building in which it is located is one of the 
finest in the West. Speaking of Mr. McCornick the Colorado 
Graphic in 1889 published the following: 

"Mr. McCornick's industry and methodical business habits did not go unre- 
warded, as all of his business life has been prosperous in the extreme. He is now 
in the prime of life, not yet fifty years of age, well preserved and of vigorous con- 
stitution. Years ago he wed an amiable and accomplished lady, and has a large 
family to which he is devoted. Realizing the value to them, greater than 
worldly possessions, of thorough educational advantages, as they grow up, he 
sends them to the best institutions at home and abroad. His new residence is said 
to be the most costly dwelling ever erected in Utah. Mr. McCornick is a liberal and 
public-spirited citizen, and his influence for good is seen on every hand in the 
flourishing city in which he lives." 




W. S. McCornick. 



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— ^rrPj^iy^ 



The McCornick Building. 



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Council, of which 
he is President. 
He also presided 
over the Chamber 
of Commerce the 
first two years o 
its existence. 
Throughout his 
lifetime he has 
been a noble and 
generous man. It 
is such men as 
form the very bone 
and sinew of the 
nation, and of that 
class Mr. McCor- 
nick is an excel- 
lent exponent. 



In the beehive of the world's industry Arthur L. Thomas has not 
played the part of the drone. On the stage of life he has not been a 
supernumerary. His has been a busy life, and the record he has made 
is clean. He was born in Chicago August 22, 1851; but while he 
was still young his parents migrated to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where 
he attended a common school, and lived until 1869, during which 
year he was appointed a clerk in the National House of Representa- 
tives, which position he held until April, 1879. He was then appointed 
Secretary of Utah, which position he held for eight years. In 1880 
he was appoined Supervisor of Census for Utah. Three years later he 
was appointed Governor of Utah, which office he held for four years 



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He was also act- 
ing Governor of 
the Territory 

during the years 
of 1879, 1880, 
1882 and at other 
times In the 
summer of 1891 
he issued a call 
for the first great 
Irrigation Con- 
gress, held in Salt 
Lake City in 
September of that 
year. That Con- 
gress was a not- 
able success, and 
its conclusions 
have largely aid- 
ed in shaping Arthur L. Thomas. 
public opinion. With regard to this all-important subject, he subse- 
quently issued the call for the International Irrigation Congress 
which was held at Los Angeles, California, and which was attended 
by representatives of many foreign countries. During his administra- 
tion the great question of Mormonism or non-Mormonism was vir- 
tually settled, and the two elements have practically divided, political- 
ly, as do the people of other sections. As Governor he recommended 
to President Harrison that amnesty be granted to such of the Mor- 
mons as were at that time liable to punishment under congressional 
laws prohibiting polygamy. This recommendation was accepted. 




A L. Thomas is a brig-ht star in the galaxy of great men of Utah, 
a man who has always done his duty without fear or favor, and who oc- 
cupies an enviable place in the hearts of his fellow citizens. 

Atypical westerner is R C Chambers — a product of opportun- 
ities and west- 
ern ideas. He 
for many years 
faced and over- 
came one by 
one the many 
hardships of a 
miner's life, 
both in Califor- 



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ma an^^'Ufih. 
His conception 
of prospiecting 
is no theoreti- 
cal one; but is 
gained rather 
from his own 
exper ie n c es, 
from the things 
he has seen, 
from the things 

, he has done. 

R. C. Chambers. To air lanes 

there is a turning, and the discovery of the famous Ontario mine in 

Park City was the turning point in the lane ol Mr. Chambers' life. 

So soon as this discovery was made known, Mr. Chambers visited the 




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spot, took the necessary observations, immediately interested the late 
Senator Hearst of California, and other prominent capitalists, purchased 
the claim, and commenced operations. Every one now knows that it was 
only by persistent hard work, careful management and personal super- 
vision that Mr. Chambers made the Ontario mine the greatest silver 
producer in the world. Today he is one of the wealthiest men in Utah; 
but in no wise has he changed with regard to character from the 
humble prospector, who with pick and hammer climbed over the his- 
toric spots of twenty-five or thirty years ago. He has today the same 
trank, open countenance, the same true, loyal heart, the same kind 
and generous spirit, the same approachable manner that was charac- 
teristic of him in the days now gone Mr. Chambers is also President 
of the Daly Mining Company, which owns the Daly mine, another 
great silver producer. He is president of the Salt Lake Herald Pub- 
lishing Company, and is prominently identified with many of the 
largest corporations that have done so much to spread Utah's fame 
from ocean to ocean, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf. He is a 
man of broad and liberal ideas, and great administrative ability, and 
whatever the project, so long as it has for its object the promotion of 
Salt Lake and Utah's fame, Mr. Chambers will ever be found giving 
it his moral and financial support. He is a grand man, and one of 
those who have done more than aught else to bring to Utah her pre- 
sent fame and glory. 

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Richard Mackintosh, the miner, and Richard Mackintosh, the 
mine operator, are one and the same person. Years ago he plodded 
over the mountains of California and Nevada in search of fortune. 
During his ramblings he came to Salt Lake City in 1871. His first 
business was mining, and he is fully and thoroughly acquainted with 
every branch of it Little by little he worked himself up, little by 



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little he gathered around himself the many things that go to make life 
worth living, and he has established for himself a reputation, so that 
today in his chosen city and indeed throughout Utah and the west there 
is not a man more highly thought of than genial Richard Mackintosh 
To the many 
friends in the old 
days he was 
'Dick, the min- 
er," and to his 
many friends to- 
day he is still 
"Dick." Mr. 
Mackintosh is 
President of the 
AltaClub; a large 
stockholder in the 
Ontario and Daly 
mines, and pro- 
prietor of the 
Park City and 
Sandy Sampling 
Mills. He was 
a member of the 
late Constitu- 
tional Conv e n- Richard Mackintosh. 
tion, and his work in that body has spoken for itself. He is a man of 
indomitable will, strong characteristics and an impressive personality, 
thoroughly approachable, always genial, always generous and ever 
kind. Many is the weary load that Mr. Mackintosh has helped from 
shoulders too weak to bear it, in his own generous and kindly way. 




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Col. Isaac Trumbo has in a comparatively little while achieved a 
marvelous, a wonderful success. Only conditions that obtain in 
America, and only American opportunities, have made this possible; 

but with that keen 
foresight and 
clever perception, 
which has e v er 
been his disting- 
uishing character, 
Col Trumbo has 
taken advantage 
of these opportun- 
ities, so that he 
stands to-day a 
typical product of 
our American in- 
s t i t u tions. H e 
came from an old 
and respected 
southern fa m ily, 
and one whose 
name is known 

CoL.IsAAc Trumbo. throughout the 

ength and breadth of that fair Southern State — Kentucky. 

Col. John Reese, his grandfather, was one of the old time ex- 
plorers, after whom Reese River in Nevada is named John K. Trum- 
bo, his father, was a forty-niner who left his fair home in Kentucky to 
brave the perils of the search for gold in those exciting times nearly 
a half century ago. Col. Trumbo himself was born September 9th, 
1858, at Genoa, near the Nevada state line. When he was but four 




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years of age, his parents removed to Corinne, Utah, where he received 
a rudimentary education. To go over the whole of Col. Trumbo's 
life would fill a volume much thicker than the one we have before us. 
Sufifice it to say that he rose from the very bottom of the ladder of 
wealth and fortune, and is today largely interested in the American 
Biscuit Company; in various California gas and electric light and 
street car companies; in the Salt Lake City & Los Angeles Railway, 
in addition to many other private corporations. It was he who broke 
the great combine on wheat some years ago in California — a crash that 
came near ruining Rosenfield, Dresbach and others, as well as the 
Bank of Nevada. October 14, 1886, Col. Trumbo married Miss 
Emma White of Salt Lake City — an accomplished woman of fine 
genius and versatile talent. 

Hon. Charles Crane was born in Oxford, England, Dec. 25, 1843, 
going with his parents to Gait, Canada in 1853, where he went to 
school until the spring of i860, when he went to Texas, remaining 
thereuntil March, 1861 ; at which time, owing to a little misunder- 
standing caused by his detestation of slavery, he came North, arriving 
at Lafayette, Ind., in April of that year. Two days after President 
Lincoln issued his call for troops Mr. Crane was enrolled in Co. D. , 
loth Ind. Volunteers, Col. Manson commanding 

Throughout the long years of that terrific struggle Mr. Crane 
fought with the best of them and on many battlefields distinguished 
himself by his bravery. 

Returning to Texas immediately after the war Mr. Crane was em- 
ployed by the government to build Forts Davis and Stockton, after which 
he spent seven months traveling over the Western states, arriving i^^ 
Salt Lake City in the spring of 1890. Two years later he removed to 
Millard Couaty, taking up land and commencing a home. Returning 



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to Nevada for a few months in the spring of 1873, he again returned to 
Utah and assisted in the erection of the Shoebridge mill in Tintic, 
Utah, concentrating works in Bingham and the McHenry mill in Park 
City. In June, 1874, Mr. Crane applied for and received the first 
United States patent issued to a citizen of Utah, a "Slime and Sulphur 
Concentrator." In November, 1874, Mr. Crane was called to Panamint, 
California, where he was engaged to erect a mill for Senators Jones 
and Stewart and the Bank of California. 

In October, 1876, 
Mr. Crane started 
to erect the On- 
tario mill in Park 
City, continuing 
as foreman of the 
mill for two years, 
until October, 
1878, when he re- 
turned to Millard 
County, where he 
had secured large 
landed interests 
and several thou 
sand sheep. Mr. 
Crane has been 
the largest owner 
of sheep in Utah, 
and has devoted 

^ ,, many years to the 

Charles Crank. -' -^ 

development of that industry, securing a national reputation as a 
breeder and writer on all questions affecting the wool -grower's inter- 




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ests in the West. Mr. Crane became identified with the Liberal party 
upon its organization, taking always an active part in its successes until 
1891, when he with a few believing that the object for which that party 
had organized had been reaHzed, withdrew and Mr. Crane became as 
actively engaged in making converts for the Republican party, as he 
had for the Liberal. In 1892, Mr. Crane organized a Republican club 
in every precinct in that county, and was elected County Chair- 
man at the Republican Convention held in Salt Lake City, in Sep- 
tember, 1892. Mr. Crane was one of the leaders in the fight for Frank 
J. Cannon, and to him as much as to any one, was due the nomination 
of that gentleman as delegate to Congress. Mr Crane was elected, 
unanimously, the Chairman of the Territorial Committee, continuing 
as such during the Legislative campaign of 1893, which for the first 
time succeeded in wresting the Territory from the Democratic party. 
At the Republican Convention of 1894, Mr. Crane was again 
unanimously elected Chairman, continuing as such until July, 1895, 

when he resigned on account of his candidacy for Governor. 

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Judge J. R. Middlemiss is a brilliant and extraordinary man, a 
man of whom any city might well be proud and who honors Salt Lake 
City by his preference. Cultured, eloquent, witty and of a genial dis- 
position coupled with a high sense of honor, he is a typical American 
gentleman. 

During his entire residence in Utah he has been engaged in public 
and private enterprises having for their object the advancement of 
this fair land and the progress of Salt Lake City. In these efforts he 
has met with more than ordinary success 

He is at present engaged in actively promoting the Salt Lake Ir- 
rigation Land and Power Company and in this undertaking is associ- 
ated (vith so. Tie of the brightest and best men of Salt Lake City, such 



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men as the Hon. 
James Glendin- 
ning, W. P. 
Noble, Judge S. 
W. Darke, R 
W. Sloan, J. T. 
Donnellan, W. 
C. Hall, Major J. 
B. Dailey, A 
Hanauer Jr.,Ma 
jor Edmund 
Wilkes, D. C 
Dun bar, and 
other gentlemen 
ot equal promin- 
ence, integrity 
and ability; who 
know no such 
word as fail. 

The Com- 




JUDGKJ.R MtDDLEMISS. 



pany has a paid up capital of ten millions of dollars, and will reclaim 
over 500,000 acres of land, where the happy homes ot a contented 
people will take the place of desert and sage-brush, adding largely to 
the population of Utah and greatly increasing the volume of business 
of Salt Lake City. Every lover of Utah's approaching progress will 
extend their best wishes for the future of a Salt Laker, so worthy of 
continued success. * * * 

In the vernacular of this western country W. E. Hubbard is 
termed a "rustler." Mr. Hubbard came to Salt Lake City in 1889 
and from that time until the present has ever ranked as foremost among 



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real estate men and has been identified with the best interests of Salt 
Lake City. 

The manner in which Edgewood, Norwood Place and the Water- 
loo suburban subdivisions were developed by him only two years after 
his coming to "Zion," shows him to be possessed of all that persever- 
ance and quickness of action that 
goes to the making of a successful 
business man. So well did he 
become known through these 
enterprises that in 1893 when the 
members of the Chamber of Com- 
merce were casting about for a 
president to lead them through 
the fag end of the then dying 
boom, Mr. Hubbard was selected 
for the place and the work he did 
during his term is yet spoken of 
and indeed stands for itself. 

The literature on Utah and 
her resources, 25,000 copies of 
W. E. Hubbard. Q^e edition of which were issued, 

remains standard to-day. It was through his untiring work that the 
several County Courts were induced to make appropriations for the 
purpose of defraying the expenses of this the largest work of the kind 
ever issued under the auspices of the Chamber, and the collecting of 
exhibits for the Mid-winter Fair, which did so much towards advertis- 
ing Utah at that unique affair in 1894, was also done by him. 

In 1894 ^^ ^^^ appointed Immigration Agent of the Rio Grande 
Western Railwav through the solicitation of J H. Bennett, and Utah 
owes much to his various colonization schemes which were worked to 




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an issue. So well, indeed, did he do his work that when Mr. Bennett 
retired from the service of the Rio Grande Western in the latter part 
of the same year, Mr. Hubbard was given charge of the Immig^ration 
Department of the Union Pacific System, which position he now holds. 



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Commercial 
Salt Lake is fortu- 
nate in possessing- 
such a galaxy of 
generous, capable, 
live and efficient 
rail ro ad men 
Frank Wadleigh, 
General Passenger 
Agent of the Rio 
Grande Western, is 
a prince among 
men. Of broad 
mental capacity 
and vast ability in 
his chosen calling, 
Mr. Wadleigh is a 
representative man 
for the place he 
fills so well. 




Frank A. Wadleigh. 



G. S. Holmes is one of Salt Lake's most energetic and enter- 
prising citizens. He is a native of the State of Ohio and came to Salt 
Lake seven years ago. Since his coming he has identified himself 
with the best interests of his chosen city. He is proprietor of the 




PROMINENT GENERAL AGENTS. 
C.A.Walker, W. F. McMillan, 

Chicago & Northwestern. D. E. Burley, Burlington. 

Alexander Mitchell, Union Pacific. B. F. Nevins, 

r. M. &. St. Paul. Denver & Rio Grande. 




G. S. Holmes. 
Knutsford Hotel, the finest hostelry between Denver and San Fran- 
cisco, largely interested in many mining enterprises, a director ofthe 
Bank of the Republic, and owns some country property. He is a 
genial, clever and capable man; a courteous, cultured and polished 
gentleman. * * * 

C. W. Bennett is a fine illustration of what perseverance, 
pluck and energy may accomplish. He is a fine gentleman ofthe old 
school, a man of many parts, versatile genius and indomitable courage. 
He is a credit to Salt Lake; he is a credit to Utah; he is a credit to the 



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conditions which made it possible for him to succeed, and what is 
more, he is a credit to himself. 

It is a most peculiar fact, and one that seems to be more than a 
mere coincidence, that the men of this country who have made the 
greatest success of the science of life were farmers' boys who learned 
to plow a straight furrow and toddled down the country road to the Httle 
red "deestrict schoolhouse." Judge Bennett was one of these. He was 
born in the town of Duanesburg, Schnectady County, N. Y., 1833. 
His father was a prosperous farmer, and the judge worked on the "old 
place" in the summer and put in his spare days during the winter at- 
tending the dis- 
trict school At 
the age of twenty 
he took an aca- 
demical course, 
and graduating 
in two years took 
up the study of 
law at Cooper- 
town, N. Y. He 
read there nearly 
a year and then 
matriculated at 
the Albany Law 
School, from 
where he gradu- 
ated and was ad- 
mitted to the bar 
at Albany, March 
C. W. Bennett. 18, 1857 From 




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there he migrated to Wisconsin, and in September of that year settled 
and commenced practice in Racine County, where he remained until 
1869. In that year he removed to Chicago, Illinois, and practiced 
there until 1871, in the latter part of which year he removed to Salt 
Lake City. He soon succeeded in building up a large practice here 
and throughout this Territory, and in the surrounding states and terri- 
tories he is known as standing high in his profession and as an honor- 
able man. 

* * * 

Ernest G. Rognon has done 
several things and has done them 
all well. He was born in Indiana, 
and in early life plowed a row as 
straight as the next one. Like 
most farmers' sons, however, he 
grew tired of the agricultural rou- 
tine and when still quite a youth 
migrated to Louisville, Kentucky, 
where for some years he was a re- 
gular "staff man" on the Courier- 
Journal. He was also successively 
connected with the Post of the 
same city and afterwards occupied 
the editorial chair of the Gazette 
at Jeffersonville, Indiana. 

He is a graduate of DePauv^r University of that state, carrying ofi 
the honors of his class and a Ph. B He also graduated from the law 
school of the same University. He came to Utah in 1889, and became 
immediately interested in the publication of several newspapers, and is 
at present President of the Utah Press Association. 




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All of this, however, has in no wise affected Mr. Rognon's ability 
as a practicing attorney, and he is at present regarded as an authority 
on mining and irrigation law. And several of the most successful 
mining companies of the Territory acknowledge him as their promoter. 
The Pan-American Mining and Milling Co in Mexico, the North 
Fork Placer Mining Co. in California and the Free Gold Mining Co. 
in Nevada are also creatures of his fertile brain. At present he is Sec- 
retary and Treasurer of the Mt. Nebo Irrigation Company, the pro- 
motion of which involved the most intricate and delicate questions of 
irrigation law. The works in Utah County, Utah, are now in process 
of construction, all difficulties having been surmounted. 

A practice in Utah of only six years has placed Dr. Hector Gris- 
wold in the very front rank among the dental practitioners in this 

city and his success, while consid- 
ered remarkable, is simply the 
legitimate and natural result of 
study, care and the faculty of 
adapting himself to the improve- 
ments which come so rapidly in 
the noble science in which, even 
his competitors acknowledge that 
he is a master. His offices are 
the largest and best appointed in 
the West, his clientage consists 
of the very best people in the up- 
per walks of life, and no profes- 
sional man in Utah has a larger 
acquaintance or a better reputa- 
Dr. Hector Griswold. tion in his profession than has Dr. 




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Griswold. Honorable dealing, a swift hand, a trained brain in materia 
medica as well as in dental surgery, and an ambition to be always in 
the van are the factors with which he has achieved his success, and to- 
day in his profession he stands without a peer. For almost a score of 
years he has been a student of dentistry and his work shows for 
itself how thorough and conscientious his training has been. 

Everybody hereabouts knows 
L. F. Harr, the oldest tobacconist 
in Salt Lake City. He is another 
of the many attracted co Salt 
Lake by the famous boom of the 
spring of 1889. He was born in 
West Virginia, but in search of a 
better location came to Salt Lake 
and opened a cigar store. He 
has been doing nothing else since; 
indeed he has found it unnecessary 
to do anything else, for with his 
thorough business methods and 
knowledge of people and things, 
he has succeeded in building up 
the finest trade in the City, so L- F. Harr. 

that now, when a man desires a smoke by his own fireside, he knows 
where to get it if he lives in Salt Lake. Mr. Harr is also a stockholder 
in the Grand Opera House, and in every way since his coming here 
has indentified himself with the best interests of the city. So well 
known has this disposition of his become, that even during the panic, 
when everybody else was crying "hard times," Mr. Harr's business 
steadily increased. 




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Frank E. McGurrin now 
stands at the head of the mort- 
g^age loan business in Salt Lake 
City. His business consists in 
loaning money on improved busi- 
ness and residence property, and 
selling these mortgages to out- 
side investors, his profit consisting 
in a commission paid by the bor- 
rower. Mr. McGurrin attends to 
all of the details himself, and the 
correctness of his business me- 
thods and the favor with which 
Salt Lake City is regarded as a 
place of investment by outside 
Frank E. McGurrin. capitaHsts, is shown by the enor- 

mous business which Mr. McGurrin has built up in this line. His 
long residence here has made him familiar with real estate values, and 
he is regarded as the best posted man in town in this respect As a 
financier he is very conservative. He believes in a single gold stand- 
ard, and all of his mortgages are payable in U. S. gold coin. He con- 
fines his attention entirely to loaning money, and does not engage in 
speculative enterprises. He does not believe in booms, but takes a 
great interest in whatever tends to a permanent and stable growth of 
the city, such as the development of electric power from the mountain 
streams, and natural gas, to furnish motive power for manufactories. 
The results already achieved in this line shows the correctness of his 
judgment. He is a man to be trusted with any investment, and 
as such is widely recognized not only in the West but in the East 
as well. 



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Prominent among the leading 
young lawyers of this city is 
James A.Williams. He is a Ken- 
tuckian by birth and comes of an 
old colonial family that emigrated 
to that fair Southern State in the 
latter part of the last century. 
Mr. Williams is a splendid rep 
resentative of that class of men 
who have overcome obstacles in 
securing an education. He gradu- 
ated from Center College, Ken- 
tucky, leaving that institution with 
the degree of A B. in 1885. He 
also attended the University of 
Virginia, and at both of those 
institutions was an enthusiastic member of the Kappa Alpha society, 
holding the office of the Grand Purser of the order for four years, dur- 
ing which period he was instrumental in spreading the order through- 
out the entire South. Mr. Williams graduated from the University 
of Virginia in 1888, and the following year he removed to Denver, 
and the year following located at Salt Lake. As a lawyer the 
best evidence of his ability can be explained by the fact that his work 
as a compiler of the Reports of the Supreme Court of this Territory 
has called forth the highest commendation from the leading men of his 
profession. He is devoted to the interests of his clients ever 
mindful of the courtesies and ethics of his profession. When he thinks 
he is right he contests every case through the courts of last resort. 
Mr. Williams is not only prominent as a lawyer, but stands high in 
the councils of the Democratic party. 



James A. Williams. 



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James A. Armstrong. 
seed and grocery houses in the 
city. When Mr. Armstrong died, 
the young men instead of having 
a receiver appointed and winding 
up the affairs of the concern, 
jumped into the breech when the 
effects of the panic were still being 
sorely felt, and through their per- 
severance, energy and great man- 
agerial ability have succeeded in 
maintaining the large business es- 
tablishment by their father. They 
are native sons of Utah, and 
we hope to see them continue as 
they have commenced. 



A generation ago Horace 
Greeley gave birth to the immortal 
words: "Go West, young man," 
and those who followed his advice 
have been made glad. As an ex- 
ample of the many avenues which 
are opened to the young man, 
the Armstrong Brothers are shin- 
ing lights. These young men 
succeeded their father upon his 
death, which occurred two years 
ago. Up to that time the estab- 
lishment of T. C. Armstrong, Jr., 
was recognized as one of the 
oldest, largest and most reliable 




Joseph C. Armstrong. 



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Of all the "clothes-makers" 
in Salt Lake City, John Hagman 
& Son are the best. Mr. Hagman 
was born in Sweden in 1841. In 
1869 he emigrated to America 
and came directly to Salt Lake 
City over one of the very first 
trains that ever rolled over the 
then newly- laid rails of the Union 
Pacific System. The road then 
ran only to Ogden, and Mr. Hag- 
man not being blest with a sup- 
erfluity of worldly goods at the 
time, walked the distance to Salt 
Lake City. 

John Hagman. Those were Stormy days, and 

Mr. Hagman found a pretty hard row to hoe when he reached the city 
by the sea. Tailoring was almost as effete as barber-shops, and there 
was really no call for a barber-shop, since the wives and fathers could 
dock hair for all practical purposes. Mr. Hagman stuck to it however, 
and, as he expresses it, "had pretty good luck," and slowly but surely 
built up a little trade for himself He has been keeping at it ever since, 
and has succeeded in building up not only a fine trade in the city, but 
by keeping one and two men traveling for him, has succeeded in 
reaching out his arms into the trade districts and more populous sec- 
tions of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Oregon. In doing this his 
son, John O. Hagman, has been a very great help and the business 
capacity of the father seems to have been intensified in the son. John 
Hagman & Son are courteous to their patrons, and conscientious with 
regard to their work. 



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The subject of this sketch, J. M. 
Christensen, was born in Denmark 
in 1846, and came to this country 
in 1869. Immediately after his ar- 
rival he assisted in the final struggle 
of war against the Blackhawk In- 
dians, and subsequently engaged in 
mining, agriculture and mercan- 
tile pursuits and also invested ex- 
tensively in the sheep business. 
Success crowned his indefatigable 
labors and unerring judgment, 
and he was enabled to secure for 
himself and family a comfortable 
home and farm at Moroni, Utah. 

In 1890, Mr. Christensen 
brought his family to Salt Lake City, that he might give them better 
educational advantages, and commenced his present business, making 
a specialty of securing the freshest of Utah eggs and choicest but 
ter and poultry obtainable for this market. The honor and integrity 
which had marked his course heretofore has been ever maintained, 
and the result is that today the firm of J. M. Christensen & Co , of 
which he is principal owner and general manager, enjoys the enviable 
reputation of being the largest and most reliable house, in its exclu- 
sive line, in Utah. * * * 

Salt Lake City has, without a doubt, the finest resort between 
Chicago and San Francisco. The New Resort, L. W. Dittmann, pro- 
prietor, has only been opened a short time, but in that time its popu- 
larity has been proven beyond a doubt. It is located on Main Street 
below Second South. The refreshment hall is a hundred feet in length 



J. M. Christknskn. 



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and twenty-seven feet in width, the bar alone being a polished expanse 
of mahogany forty- two feet long. The other space is devoted to re- 
freshment tables, after the style of London Music Halls, cigar counters 
and a magnificiently appointed private office. The wood- work of the 
whole defies description, while at night the soft light diffiised by va- 




Intbrior of the New Resort. 

ried colored electric globes, the laughter and talk of old cronies met 
there to chat, the mellow color of the billiard room and the clash- 
ing of balls flying over the smooth green surfaces, presents a picture 
never to be forgotten. It is an ideal place to meet and talk while sip- 
ping the brew of Lemp, the only kind of beer served at the New 
Resort. * * * 

The Vienna Cafe is one of the most unique business institutions 
west of Chicago. It is certainly one of the finest cafes in the west, 
and their catch-line: "We cater to men's trade only," tells the 



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whole story in but very few words. The place is owned by Manca 
Brothers, who came to Salt Lake in 1892. Although of Italian des- 
cent they were born in St. Louis, Missouri. They opened their pre- 




Interior of the Vienna Cafe. 

sent establishment in March, and are doing exceedingly well. They 
are both young men, and in the short time they have been in this 
city have achieved a marvelous success. 

Somehow one feels the better for knowing or having known the 
genial and jovial M. R. Evans. No one would ever think that Mr. 
Evans is a pioneer, but such he is and some of the districts now best 
known and thickly settled were first seen in all their primitive magni- 
ficence and glory by Mr. Evans. He came to Salt Lake City in 1871 
and, as he expressed it, "dropped his pile" prospecting for gold. In 
1873, he with Capt. Dodds pioneered the Ashley Fork country, broke 



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the first ground, put in the first stock and erected the first house on 
what was then almost the borderland of civilization. The Green River 
country was also opened by him and his stock used the range at large 
where Ft. Duchesne now stands. He was there when the Fort was 
established, but 
with the breaking 
up of his "rang- 
ing ground" 
came back to 
Salt Lake City in 
1882. He is 
largely interested 
in mines at pre- 
sent but has 
found time to 
build up the 
largest bicycle 
jobbing and re- ^"^ 
tailing trade west 
of the Mississippi M. R. Evans' Bicyclk School. 

River. Mr. Evans tells some interesting tales of the days when grizzly 
bears used to drink from the public watering troughs on Main Street. 
He has succeeded in making himself well and favorably known through- 
out this modern city of Deseret. 

* * 
The Utah Implement Company is one of the largest concerns of 
its kind west of the Rocky Mountains Its establishment on State 
Street is not only a credit to the city, but the business it does is a 
correct index to the thrift and energy of Utah farmers. In their show- 
rooms one can see a most complete line of agricultural machinery, 




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wagons, buggies and farm implements. Among these there may be 
discerned some of the wares of the most famous makers of the world; 
Mitchell wagons, the famous Henney buggies, the renowned Whitely 
mowers; the famous Royal and Utah hay-rakes; Imperial plows and 
harrows; Milwaukee binders; Flying-Dutchman sulky; Utah sulky 
plows; Moline steel-plows; harness, whips, robes, hay-tools, and every 
possible or conceivable utensil necessary to the best work of the mod- 
ern scientific farmer. 




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The Utah Implement Company. 

The officers of the Company are all well-known throughout Utah, 
for their business probity and private integrity; and no stronger triplet 
of leaders could possibly be elected to serve the interests of any con- 
cern. They are: President, Samuel Peterson; Vice-President, Walter 
C. Lyman; Secretary and Treasurer, M. B, Whitney. The Company 
is now doing a large and successful business, and has every reason to 
congratulate itself on the result of its well directed efforts which have 
brought about such a pleasing and gratifying showing. 

Most of this is due indeed to the careful and business like policy 
of the already named officers. Samuel Peterson, Jr., has been in the 
implement business in Salt Lake City for fifteen years and is fully 
acquainted with the needs of its patrons. M. B. Whitney was engaged 



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in a like business in Colorado, Utah and Montana for sixteen years, and 
his acquaintance extends throughout the Rocky Mountain country. 

Among the substantial and stable 
business houses of Salt Lake City, it 
is only fair that the liquor house of B. 
K. Bloch & Company be mentioned. 
It was organized in the spring of 1890 
with Fred J. Kiesel, president, and B. 
K. Bloch, general manager. It is an 
incorporated company which by its 
careful attention to the slightest de- 
tails of business, and careful manage- 
ment of its affairs, has succeeded in 
building up a large wholesale trade 
throughout Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, 
Nevada, Colorado, Montana and 
Oregon In Sacramento, California, 
B. K. Bloch & Co. is located the large winery and man- 

ufacturing plant of this company, which controls annually millions of 
pounds of raw grapes. Aside from their liquor business they are 
general agents for the Idanha mineral water, and for the Pabst Brew- 
ing Company of Milwaukee. Fred J. Rieger, manager for the Salt 
Lake house, is a courteous and affable gentleman, and one whose 
vast managerial ability is called into daily use. 




A well appointed drug store is, when under the management of 
an educated and competent pharmacist, an important feature of the 
mercantile interests of any city, and working in conjunction with the 
medical profession accomplishes much in the way of benefiting 
humanity. Such an institution is Bentley & Hill's handsomely ap- 



127 

pointed pharmacy in the Dooly Block, a picture of which is shown on 
page 6 1 and which is the most attractive and best equipped house of 
the kind in Salt Lake City. Here may be found a full representation 
of such articles as the public expect to find in a well stocked drug 
store. Years of experience in this business have made Mr. Hill, the 
genial, polite and cultured manager, fully conversant with all its re- 
quirements, and it is not asserting too much to say that no establish- 
ment here is better fitted to give complete satisfaction than the one 
under notice, which, it may be added, is perfectly reliable. 

* * 




NELDEN-JUDSON DRUG CO. 



The Only Wholesale Drug House Between Denver 
AND San Francisco. 



est.a.bXjISI€:ex) •-' ises. 



JOSLIN & PARK, 




ITO-ITZ Main SX^reet, Sal^ "L.a'We Gity, \"5xaYv, 

1008-1010 Sii^teeii^Yi S^ree\., Denver, Colorado. 




Interior of Joslin & Park's Stork. 

fHE oldest and most reliable Jewelers in the West. Dealers in 
Diamonds, Watches. Jewelry and Silverware. Sole aijents for 
the celebrated Patek, Philippe & Co. Watches. Souvenirs in Tea and 
Coffee Spoons and large pieces. The finest and largest assortment in the 
City. Tourists will find here the most unique designs to select from. 
All the latest novelties in gold and silver. 

JOSLIN & PARK, 

R."at"tior\7.ed Oity TiraeiS-eepers. 



Salt Lake City's 

LEADING HOTEL, 



THE KNUTSFORD. 



So far as hotel accommodations are concerned the comfort of the visitor to 
Salt Lake City has been fully considered and thoroughly supplied. Standing on 
the corner of State and Third South Streets is the Knutsford Hotel, a noble structure 
of two hundred and fifty rooms and without a doubt the finest hotel of its kind 
between Chicago and the Coast. Looking at it from the outside one sees a mag- 
nificent structure built of grey sandstone extending down each street almost one- 
half of the block. And Salt r^ake blocks are not checker squares either, they are 
good long great big comfortable blocks in the middle of vv liich the farmer and fruit 
grower finds ample scope for their genius. 

But one in looking at the outside of it is not prepared for the dainty exquisite 
tone of the rotunda which greets him as he enters. There is something peculiarly 
homelike about the atmosphere of the Knutsford, something quiet and restful, and 
when one has once passed the wide open portal he or she feels immediately at home 
and is constrained to remark "I am glad to be here." 





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The rotunda !■:> buill in that quaiiii old colonial st\le so util known to 
travelers in the Soutli The seventy of its Connthian columns the beauty of Us 
tiled floor and the simple homely oeauty of its grand staircase is a picture not 
easily forgotten by the tired and weary pilgiim wornout with his journey over the 
desert, or "over the range." 

Ascending the grand staircase, one is struck with the beauty of the furnish- 
ment of the promenade which is on the second floor. Extending around the interior 
of the court, commanding a full view of the office and the rotunda, it is carpeted 
with a magnificent Wiltons, whose soft red tone is restful to the eye and sole as 
well. The furniture is of the massive kind, great large rockers, luxuriously up- 
holstered settees, Axminster rugs, while the walls are covered with rare and ex- 
quisite etchings. 



Walking around the west corner of the promenade where the elevator is 
located, one can ascend to the upper floors where the guest chambers are, every 
one of which have outside windows and handsome Moquet carpets. 

Bathrooms with all conveniences are attached to these suites. The rooms 
themselves are furnished in almost Oriental magnificence and each corner suite, 
fronting south or west contains large bay windows from which one beholds a 
superb view of valley, lake and mountain landscape. It is indeed most charming 
to sit in the window of one of these rooms in one's tennis suit and view the snow- 
covered Wasatch, not 20 miles away. 

From the same window one can see The Sanitarium, that world renowned 
health resort, located onb' one block and a half away. It is Jiere that the crippled, 
the sightless, and the wounded of all kinds gather to heal, in the water heated 
over the furnaces of mother nature, their many ills. Nowhere else on earth is there 
such a place. Aside from its sanitary value it is almost a social resort, for Tuesday 
and Friday evenings are known as "Social Nights." Upon these nights the very 
flower of Salt Lake's culture gather to disport in the warm invigorating water. 

As for bridal chambers, the far famed Ponce De Leon has not suites more 
beautiful than these. Surely every provision has been made for the newly wed 
couple, the Mecca of whose sight seeing tour is here in romantic, historical Salt 
Lake. The floors are covered with the softest of Axminster, while the furniture of 
satin wood upholstered in colors of ivory and old pink lends to each apartment a 
color, a tone distinctly and individually its own. 

The grand dining room, located on the second floor at the head of the grand 
stairway, is far famed as one of the most beautiful in the country. Here, also, the 
floor is of polished mosaic tile The ceiling is thirty-five feet high, studded with 
incandescent lights which, with its white walls and English trimmings, lend to it a 
color at night which is unsurpassed. 

Outside light is admitted through cathedral glass whose soft tones falling 
over the whitest of linen and the brightest of silverware and the wittiest and most 
charming of people lend to it a color by day, whose eclat is not reproduced any- 
where else on earth. Magnificent sideboards and mantels with long French bevelled 
plate mirrors finish a picture which taken either by day or night beggars descrip- 
tion. One feels better tor eating there, and once seen, it is a picture that is never 
forgotten. 

On this floor is also the writing room. Somehow or another most hotel 
proprietors seem to think that the writing room is a necessary evil, and as such, to 
be discountenanced as much as possible. Usually it is located in some far-oflfcorner, 
or else a desk in the lobby is the only accommodation supplied. With the Knuts- 
ford all this is changed. As much attention has been lavished upon the writing 
room and as much money expended toward making it a thing of beauty as upon any 
other of its many admirable features. It is exquisitely furnished with Hollenden 
upholstered chairs i6th century oak, while the upholstering is of terra cotta and 
green. It is surely a beautiful apartment and deserves more space than can be 
given in this limited description. 

Returning to the rotunda one passes into the Bar and Billiard room. Surely 
the billiard parlors are the most beautiful of their kind in the country. No money 
has been spared in furnishing it, and the best of tables have been put in. One 
cannot imagine a more pleasant place to while away a dull hour preceding "train 
time." And the Bar! Everybody knows "Billy." Billy is proud of his reputation 
and the hotel is proud of Billy. Billy is an artist in his line, and the exquisite 
"mixes" that come from his skilful fingers leave a pleasant taste for hours. 
Without a doubt, the finest liquors in the country are to be fpund in The Knutsford 
Bar, and one is agreeably surprised at the absence of "bottled lightning," fer which 
most Western towns and nearly ali Western hotels are noted. 

The laundry is owned by the house, and every precaution has been taken to 
meet any emergency whatsoever. 

The Knutsford has fire escapes, but it does not need them, as at no time 
whatsoever is there any fire of any kind in the hotel. The steam heating apparatus, 
the ranges in the kitchen and the laundry are all located in a building entirely 
separate and distinct from the main structure. 

And now in conclusion, every arrangement has been made for the comfort of 
every guest who may come to the Knutsford. There are sample rooms galore, 
Western Union Telegraph office, the ventilation is of the best and incandescent 
electric lights in every room. The cuisine is unexcelled, and the water used (or 
both cooking and drinking purposes is the purest in the world and comes clear, 
bright and sparkling through the pipes from the mountain canyons i8 miles away. 



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Rooms 44-5-(^> OTleara Building, Salt Lake City 



REFERENCE5--COMMERCIAL AGENCY AND 

Banks of Salt Lake Cixr. 



^] THE LEADING [^ 



OUR FALL GOODS 

\EJi\\ soon arrive auA ^aie \Kril\ Yia^e "Itva lAargest. and "PiuesX. 
l^iTve e-uer opened in \,Y\\s 0\\.y. Our Bnyers are no^iu: in tb.e 
"aast, Soonring the Marite\.s lor iate Ro'u:e\ties. in tiie mean- 
time a^i Snmmer Goods are \3eing soid at =Kaii Yaine. li-uery- 
tYiing mns\,\De oieaned ont. We do not propose to carry any- 
ttiing o-u:er. 



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\J> * INCORPORATED. « ^ 



Hardware and Hetal Merchants, 



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SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 
Importers and Dealers in •'•v 

Hardware, Iron, Steel, Iron Pipe, Miners' 
Tools, Stoves, Tinware, Etc, and a Gen- 
eral Assortnnent of Mill and Mine Supplies. 

ROOFING PLATES, All Grades. 

BRIGHT PLATES, Charcoal and Coke. 

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN. 

A Large Assortment op Qualities. Weights and Sizes. 



SHEET IRON AND charcoal^cleaned 

qjrri COLD ROLLED 

O I ttL. connoN 

Galvanized and Terne Eave Trough and Gutter, Corrugated Leader, 
BIbows and Shoes. SOLDER, a Specialty, (our own make.) 



TIN, Pig and Bar, SHEET ZING, 

LEAD, Pig and Bar, SHEET COPPER, 

INGOT COPPER, PLUMBAGO, 

ANTIMONY, WIRE, 

HARD METAL, RIUETS- 

Also a large assortment of TINNERS' TOOL8 and MACHINES. 



We are Agents for the DAMASCUS PROCESS STEEL, Manufactured by the 
Pennsylvania Steel Refining Co. 



** Santa Fe Route." 

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Sc Santa Se Sail-wau6. 



The Only Line which runs Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between Ogden, Salt 
Lake City and Chicago, and Pullman Palace Reclining Chair Cars be- 
tween Ogden, Salt Lake City, Denver and Chicago. 
The Short Line. Superb Scenery. 
Equipment Unsurpassed. 



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If so, be sure and secure tickets reading over the "Santa Fe 
Route." Grandest and Greatest Railroad on Earth. 

_^^ Leave Ogden or Salt Lake on the evening train in 
order to see the Most Beautiful Scenery in America. Trains 
leave Rio Grande Western Depot, Salt Lake City, at 7:40 p.m. 
Ticket Office, No. 15 W. Second South Street. 

<^£;o. fi. <s^iL.]V[Aisr, 

General Agent Passenger Department, 

50 W. Second South St , Salt Lake City, Utah. 




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I THE SCENIC LINE OF T HE WORLD. 

The Only Line running Two Fast Trains Daily to 

Leadville, Aspen, Pueblo, Colorado Sprin gg and Denver. 

js^ Connections made at Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver with all lines 
East. Elegant Day Coaches, Chair Cars and Pullman Sleepers on all 
trains. Take the D. & R. G. and have a Comfortable Trip and enjoy the 
Finest Scenery on the Continent 



SHORTEST LINE TO CRIPPLE GREEK, Clor ados Great G old Camp. 



A. S. Hughes, 

Traffic Manager, Denver, Colorado. 

B. F. Nevins, 

General Agent, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



S. K. Hooper, 

G. P. & T. A., Denver, Colo. 

H M. Gushing, 

Traveling Passenger Agent 



Every Tourist has heard of 



Z. C. M. I. 







Thousands Have Visited Its Great Sales Rooms, 

"One of the Sights of the West!" 



This is the place to secure needed supplies ot every 
description or to purchase 



Souvenirs of Salt Lake City! 



Trunks, Satchels, Valises, Traveling Bags, Rugs and 
Men's Furnishings. 

A Wonderful Stock 

IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. 



Prescriptions Filled 

Jg^" Perfumery, Choice Cordials and Liquors for 
Invalids at the 

Z. C. M. I. Drug Dept, 

Main Street. 

T. G. WEBBER, Superintendent. 



EST-A-BLISHED 18SO. 



Calder's Music Palace. 



We Carry the World Crowned 

Steinway & Sons |^ 



PIANOS. 



Mason & Hamlin 12 
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Mason & Hamlin 

Kimball. 

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(auitars, 3/CarLdolins, Baajcs, ^uloKarps, Etc., Etc. 

Our Goods are all High '^rade and fully Guaranteed. Tuning, Re- 
pairing, Moving and Renting a Specialty. 



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As the author of this book, I want to say a word with regard to myself and a 
few words with regard to other people. In the first place, I want it distinctly un- 
derstood that I have shared the common lot of authors and have made no money 
out of this publication; but far more precious than gold to me have been the kind 
words and genial hand-clasps of the many good men and true who have helped me 
by their kindly counsel from time to time. Prominent among these men is 
W. S. McCornick. Judge Edward F. Colborn, secretary of the Chamber of 
Commerce, is another; and I am sure that had I not had the kind words, the moral 
support and the mental help that Judge C. C. Goodwin has so kindly and persis- 
tently tendered me, I should have fallen by the wayside long ago. Franklin D- 
Richards and A. Milton Musser, historians of the Mormon Church, have also been 
among my kindest and most appreciative friends. Frank VVadleigh, General Pass- 
enger Agent of the Rio Grande Western, also deserves mention in this connection. 
He did everything he could to further my efforts and the success of "IN THE 
SHADOW OF MORONI." I also want to thank John P. Meakin. There are times 
in a man's life when he needs kind words more than gold; and as a representative 
of that fairy land, Bohemia, I may say that to me, kind thoughts, crystallized in 
the words of my mother tongue, are far more precious than yellow dross. 

I want to thank F. E. McGurrin for the financial aid he so kindly extended at 
a critical period in the history of this book, and I want to thank the Souvenir Guide 
Company for tiie aid they so generously extended when I was faint with the heat of 
the noontide glare. To G. S. Holmes, proprietor of the Knutsford Hotel, I owe a 
debt of gratitude for courtesies extended in connection with the publication of 
this book. Messrs. Sainsbury & Johnson were also very kind, as all photo- 
graphs used herein were taken by them. They are artists in their profession. 
David R. Lyon, manager of the Magazine Printing Company, has also 
been exceedingly kind and has helped me in many ways. Mr. Lyon is a 
gentleman and one whom I am glad to have met. I am not sure but that the place 
of honor is generally at the rear of the procession, and this place I wanttoaccord the 
few but true women who have helped me by their kind words and generous smiles- 
To them I wish to extend my heartfelt and deepest gratitude, for to my mind the 
fairest of all fair things is a woman who is good and true. It is only necessary for 
me to add that, as a representative of the South, the Land of Flowers and Sunshine, 
the land of beautiful dreams and happv thoughts, the land where that fair flower, 
woman, attains her highest perfection, their smiles are more necessary to my well- 
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